Category: inspirational geographers
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Inspirational Physical Geographers #2: Alfred Wegener
When teaching about tectonic processes to your students it is likely you will have mentioned Alfred Wegener. Perhaps you have taught about the ‘mystery’ of why the continents appear to fit together, or how fossils of animals and plants have been found on different continents that wouldn’t ordinarily have been found together, thus suggesting that…
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Inspirational physical geographers No.1: Marie Tharp
You will have seen the map shown below – perhaps in a geography text book, and you may have a poster version of the map on a classroom wall somewhere in your Geography Department. There is a version of this map on Google Earth. This map of the ’World ocean floor’ portrays a stunning piece…