At the time, continental drift theory was a pretty fringe idea. Marie wasn't even allowed to go on expeditions out at sea because women out at sea were apparently bad luck. Even within marie's research centre, like columbia university, where she worked, was apparently a big centr of anti drift culture. And in addition to all this anti drift culture, when marie first brought her findings to bruce, he dismissed her ideas as girl talk. So we contributed to a revolution in geoloy a thinking. Because nowthe using the ocean and platic tonics to redo the geology on the land, created a revolution. It compares with the copernican revolution
Earlier this year, Nicole Yamase explored the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest place in the ocean, where few people have ever been. The rest of the seafloor is almost as mysterious — 80 percent remains unmapped — but the few glimpses scientists have gotten have completely revolutionized our understanding of the planet.
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