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Film, Video The Way the World Works

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Title

  • The Way the World Works

Names

  • Hebert, John R. (Curator)

Headings

  • -  Tharp, Marie
  • -  Plate tectonics
  • -  Heezen, Bruce C
  • -  Motion Pictures

Genre

  • Motion Pictures

Notes

  • -  Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen were oceanographers, cartographers and geologists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Science Observatory of Columbia University from the late 1940s to 1977. Marie Tharp's papers in the Geography and Map Division contain more than 32,000 pieces including a handmade globe of the earth showing the ocean floor and the location of the mid-Atlantic Ocean ridge. This globe served to reveal positive data regarding the concept of continental drift and plate tectonics.
  • -  Presented in Partnership with HISTORY

Repository

  • Geography And Map Division

Online Format

  • video

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