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First map of an oceanic basin. Matthew Fontaine Maury produced this map in1853 and published it in the Wind and Current Charts for that year.
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Second map of an oceanic basin. Matthew Fontaine Maury produced this mapin 1854 and published it in the Wind and Current Charts for that year. Thismap had significantly more data than the 1853 map including soundings byLt. Otway Berryman, USN, on t
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Bottom characteristic map of the approaches to New York Harbor by United States Hydrographical Office as published in Matthew Fontaine Maury's Wind andCurrent Charts for 1858. Data from United States Coast Survey. Note there isno expression of Huds
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First profile of an oceanic basin. Matthew Fontaine Maury produced this profile in 1854 and published it in the Wind and Current Charts for that year.
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An early example of a microscopic examination of ocean bottom sediment. Thiswas published with a report by Lt. Joseph Dayman, RN, who ran a line of soundings across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland on HMS CYCLOPS in1857. This was the
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Sounding on the HMS CYCLOPS in mid-Atlantic Ocean in August 1857. Thediagram on the right shows the problem with early hemp sounding line methods.The line would keep running out after reaching bottom and the surveyors wouldnot be able to ascertain a
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Top panel same as image map00006. Bottom panel demonstrates method ofdetaching weight and retrieving bottom sample such that the surveyor would atleast know that the sounding weight had reached bottom. However, this did notimprove the accuracy of t
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Western section of survey line run by Lt. Joseph Dayman on HMS CYCLOPSduring telegraph cable survey of 1857. The work of Berryman and Dayman betweenin 1856 and 1857 respectively marked a new era in ocean exploration, thebeginning of systematic surve
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Middle section of survey line run by Lt. Joseph Dayman on HMS CYCLOPSduring telegraph cable survey of 1857. The work of Berryman and Dayman betweenin 1856 and 1857 respectively marked a new era in ocean exploration, thebeginning of systematic survey
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Eastern section of survey line run by Lt. Joseph Dayman on HMS CYCLOPSduring telegraph cable survey of 1857. The work of Berryman and Dayman betweenin 1856 and 1857 respectively marked a new era in ocean exploration, thebeginning of systematic surve
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Cover to the publication by Lt. Joseph Dayman detailing the work of running thefirst lines of soundings across the Atlantic Ocean as part of an intentionalplanned survey.
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In 1858, Matthew Fontaine Maury modified his 1854 map to show theTelegraphic Plateau extending east-west across the Atlantic Ocean and an area ofrelatively shoal ground which he called Middle Ground. The Telegraphic Plateauactually extended through
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A map of Hudson Canyon reproduced in James Dwight Dana's Manual of Geology,first edition, published in 1862. This map was provided by the United StatesCoast Survey to Dana. The first discovery of submarine canyons occurred onthe Pacific Coast, Huen
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A curious map of the Arctic Ocean showing land extending north fromGreenland. Published in 1869 in Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen.
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Josephine Bank, the first seamount discovered as a direct result ofintentional exploration. Discovered by the Swedish Corvette Josephine in 1869. Northern 9/10 of bank.
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Josephine Bank, the first seamount discovered as a direct result ofintentional exploration. Discovered by the Swedish Corvette Josephine in 1869.Southern 1/2 of bank.
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Josephine Bank, the first seamount discovered as a direct result ofintentional exploration. Discovered by the Swedish Corvette Josephine in 1869.Image digitally merged from images map00016 and map00017.
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The east coast of the United States showing the continental shelf, shelf break, continental slope, and sediment types. This was one of the first publishedmaps of this nature. The Coast Survey had rediscovered the continental shelfbreak in 1848. Co
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The Sea Bottom off Florida and Cuba as published by Petermann's GeographischeMittheilungen in 1870. This map was drawn by Louis Francois de Pourtales of the the United States Coast Survey. Pourtales Plateau was named by LouisAgassiz, the first unde
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The Sea Bottom off Long Island as published by Petermann's GeographischeMittheilungen in 1870. This map was drawn by Louis Francois de Pourtales of the the United States Coast Survey. Map shows head of Hudson Canyon, the canyonaxis as shown by the
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