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Tharp
Crater (13.4 km) — Marie; Geologist and oceanographer, created first comprehensive map of the ocean floor and is credited with discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (1920-2006).
- Coordinates
- -30.599, 145.6308 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 13.45
- Etymology
- Marie; Geologist and oceanographer, created first comprehensive map of the ocean floor and is credited with discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (1920-2006).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 2015
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15310
- Clean name
- Tharp
- Ethnicity
- United States
- Continent
- North America
- Quad
- LAC-102