Find Any Map
Heezen-Tharp map and papers collection.
Download full sizeView at the archive

Heezen-Tharp map and papers collection.

Consists of a wide variety of materials relating to an effort to map ocean floors carried out by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Science Observatory of Columbia University. This work was accomplished by geologist Bruce C. Heezen and oceanographer/cartographer Marie Tharp. The materials included maps, preliminary drawings, earth science data, precision depth recordings, scientific and technical reports, papers, correspondence, cruise logbooks, printing masters, reproducibles, and globes. Register in Reading Room.

Date
1957
Mapmaker / publisher
Heezen, Bruce C.; Tharp, Marie
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
11,541 × 9,260 pixels

Public domain

Reason: a US government work.

This status rests on the map's publication history, as researched by Wikimedia Commons. Check it before commercial use.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US Government; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; Commons tags it as a US government work, but its record names no government maker.

Credit line

"Heezen-Tharp map and papers collection." (1957). Heezen, Bruce C.; Tharp, Marie. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heezen-Tharp_map_and_papers_collection._LOC_2006629258.jpg

What public domain means here

Need maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 13644.

More like this