Taxacom: Marie Tharp

Thu Sep 28 18:39:24 CDT 2023

Tharp is the featured topic of an Amoeba People song, with video available
at https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNuugQSaHM7Y&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cde28e35adbd34f88f26e08dbc07c2c31%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638315411774643591%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2B6kOCbLjmyehmYqSF%2Fspto%2BNrqds%2BKx0AakBENH47XA%3D&reserved=0
To give greater taxonomic relevance, they also have a song about
coprolites, which can be named as ichnofossils under the zoological code.
At least one spiral coprolite has been identified as a gastropod and as a
plant part, so it's shown up in both zoological and botanical codes.

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 2:14 PM Tony Rees via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
wrote:

> Not completely un-noticed (now at least):
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> Regards - Tony
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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> On Fri, 29 Sept 2023 at 00:41, John Grehan via Taxacom <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > If you've never heard of Marie Tharp, then you are not alone. Never heard
> > of her myself before now. In the 'official' histories of plate tectonics
> > the discovery of the mid ocean ridges goes to Heezen, and Ewing, the head
> > of the Lamont lab, who in 1956 published on the discovery of a ridge
> > covering about 40,000 miles of the ocean's floor. Only it was never their
> > discovery, but that of Tharp, who was, of course, not credited for this
> > (and does this not remind you of the double helix scam?). Tharp was given
> > the tedious and detailed task of mapping the ocean seafloor from echo
> > soundings (I guess the men were too important to get their hands on a
> > pencil). "After weeks of looking at the data and plotting the lines,
> Tharp
> > had noticed a pattern. She had about half a dozen lines running across
> the
> > ocean, and many had a v-shaped dip in a similar spot, right on top of an
> > underwater mountain chain, the Mid-Atlantic Rift. It looked like a rift.
> > But it couldn't be, Heezen told her, because that would be too much
> > like continental
> > drift
> > <
> >
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> > >.
> > He and "almost everyone else at Lamont, and in the United States, thought
> > continental drift was impossible," according to Tharp. It would take
> Heezen
> > months to accept what he'd dismissed as Tharp's "girl talk."
> >
> > So once again, the  history of science here is so much bs (and
> ironically b
> > = bull in both noun and adjective). Science is supposed to be about the
> > discovery of knowledge, but all too often it is also about power and
> > suppression. As noted by Derrida, for all knowledge gained, something
> > escapes and is lost. Only in such cases as this the loss is deliberate.
> At
> > least history can sometimes be revisited. The worry is what continues to
> go
> > on in the present.
> >
> > Cheers, John
> >
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