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Nature 395, 23 (3 September 1998) | doi:10.1038/25622
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- University of South Dakota - Biomedical Engineering
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Martin Kemp1
Abstract
People who chart the ocean floor draw up landscapes no one has seen, using machines that send out sound waves and invisible rays. Turning sound into shape, their achievement is a map we can see and understand.
Systematic mapping of the ocean floor has progressed, in its relatively short existence, through stages that mirror in important respects the history of terrestrial maps from the time of the Renaissance. Yet the prime early means for representing undersea topographies involved emissions not discernible by our eyes.
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