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Where can the ridge discovered by Marie Tharp be viewed?

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Tharp and Heezen's work mapping the oceans ultimately led to the discovery of a 40,000 mi (64,000 km) panoceanic underwater ridge, made visible in their World Ocean Floor map published (1977) by the Office of Naval Research.

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