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  • 17 Mar 2021
    Marie Tharp’s transatlantic profiles with her annotations of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its central valley. Acknowledgement: US Library of Congress. Simon Mitton.
    Simon Mitton

    Marie Tharp: discovered the Rift Valley in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Marie Tharp’s transatlantic profiles with her annotations of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its central valley. Acknowledgement:  US Library of Congress. Simon Mitton. In this post on “deep carbon science” –– a fascinating research field in the geosciences –– I recount the research of Marie Tharp (1920–2006) a great pioneer in visualizing the geology of the […]

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  • 19 Feb 2021
    Carlos R. Mechoso

    Climate Interactions among Ocean Basins

    There is overwhelming evidence that climate interactions among ocean basins provide key contributions to global climate variability in a wide range of time scales.  For example, it is accepted that El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events in the tropical Pacific Ocean have remote affects around the world, both on continents and on other ocean basins.  This […]

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  • 5 Aug 2010

    Fish with Fanged Tongue – A Discovery in the Census of Marine Life

    From National Geographic: "Australia's 'terrifying' dragonfish uses its many fangs—which even stud its tongue—to hook hard-to-find prey in the cold, dark depths, scientists say. The banana-size fish is one of tens of thousands of both known and new species included in a new inventory released today by the Census of Marine Life, a decade-long ocean-exploration project." What be in the sea?!

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