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Sir John Murray's world map of 1899, Atlantic Ocean. The onlyphysiographic feature he named were deeps, defined as area of the seafloorbelieved to have depths greater than 3000 fathoms.
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Sir John Murray's world map of 1899, Indian Ocean. The onlyphysiographic feature he named were deeps, defined as area of the seafloorbelieved to have depths greater than 3000 fathoms.
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Sir John Murray's world map of 1899, Pacific Ocean. The onlyphysiographic feature he named were deeps, defined as area of the seafloorbelieved to have depths greater than 3000 fathoms.
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Alexander Supan's world map of 1899 showing both deeps and bathymetric highsof the World Ocean. Note difference in names between Supan and Murray inprevious map. Supan's naming methodology prevailed in the Twentieth Century. Note also the Karolinen
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Alexander Supan was among the first to recognize the nature of oceanic trenches. Compare his nomenclature for the Aleutian Trench to John Murray's 1899 map.Perhaps Supan Deep as shown by Murray was a little jab as Murray continued thissort of termino
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A Russian map of the Barents Sea by L. Brietfuss and A. Smirnow published in1905. Additions to soundings based on the expeditions of Willem Barentz andKarl Weyprecht.
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A Russian map of the Barents Sea by L. Brietfuss and A. Smirnow published in1905. Same map as the last.
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Otto Krummel's map of the Mariana Trench. In: Handbuch derOzeanographie, 1907. This corrects the error made by Supan in his 1899 mapwhich showed a Karolinen Trench running parallel to the north side of theCaroline Islands.
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A map of Germany's western Pacific colonies as of 1910. The Mariana Trench andTonga-Kermadec Trenches are shown clearly as are a few seamounts. The deepest spot on this map is now in the Mariana Trench, SE of Guam, with a depth of9636 meters. The d
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A 1912 map of the Atlantic Ocean by the German oceanographer Gerhard Schott. Note the use of the term Telegraph Plateau following the 1858 nomenclatureof Maury. In: Geographie des Atlantischen ozeans by Gerhard Schott.Library Call No. GC481 .S34 1.
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A 1912 map of the Atlantic Ocean by Max Groll. Although quite similar toGerhard Schott's map, it is totally devoid of feature names. The number ofincluded soundings, although providing evidence for the determination of contour lines, tends to obscur
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The northern half of the 1912 Atlantic Ocean map by Max Groll. In: Tiefenkarten der Ozeane mit Erlauterungen. Plate I, Atlantic Ocean.
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A 1912 map of the Indian Ocean in Tiefenkarten der Ozeane mit Erlauterungenby Max Groll. Note the light-colored (shallower) area between Australia andAntarctica, an early indication of the continuity of the oceanic ridge systemin the South Indian an
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A 1912 map of the Pacific Ocean in Tiefenkarten der Ozeane mit Erlauterungenby Max Groll. Note the light-colored (shallower) area in the vicinity of whatis today called the East Pacific Rise, and early indication of the continuity of the oceanic ri
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Gerhard Schott's 1912 map of the Arctic Basin and North Atlantic showingnumerous distinct basins and, although first soundings on Reykjanes Ridge wasprobably on H.M.S. BULLDOG in 1860, this is among the first maps to show it asa named feature. In: Ge
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An early profile of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In:Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans by Gerhard Schott in 1912. P.88.
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A map of the rugged topography around the Azores Islands produced byGerhard Schott. This map gives an indication of the level of detail achievablewith piano-wire sounding technology. Map VII, p. 112, Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans by Gerhard Sc
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An inset map of an area off the coast of Brazil, South America, showing numerous banks and seamounts. Probably most of these features were discovered byBritish Cable Ship operations. In:Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans by Gerhard Schott in 1912. P.
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An inset map of the Congo Canyon in: Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans,by Gerhard Schott, 1912. P. 102.
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A cross-sectional view of Hudson Canyon by Gerhard Schott in 1912. In:Geographie des Atlantischen Ozeans by Gerhard Schott in 1912. P. 109.
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