Ocean floor map

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Ocean floor map

Does anyone know if you can still buy the world map showing the features of the ocean floor produced by Heezen and Tharp in 1977? I have a copy (which arrived with an Open University course). However I am writing some Earth Science teaching materials, and wanted to use the map as part of a suggested activity - so I need to be able to suggest to teachers where they can get it from. I've had an unsuccessful trawl through various geological and map suppliers on the internet.

Any ideas?

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Any use?

Is this any use?

Global Seafloor Topography
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/97mgg03.html


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Thanks

Thanks hypo - I had found various maps on the internet that could be used (even Google Earth has what seems to be a reaonable reprentation of the main features of the ocean floors) - but sometimes in a classroom it is easier to gather round a map, so I was really after somewhere where people could buy the Heezen/Tharp map.

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poster

You can buy the poster for $18 - click the shopping cart link


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Poster

Ah - missed that! But I need a UK supplier... 

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try this then ...

Try this then..
http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/gebco-map-of-the-world-oceans-10308/


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Thanks - this would do at a

Thanks - this would do at a pinch (but so would a number of others). It was specifically the Heezen/Tharp map I was after, though.

Cheers

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Marie Tharp Maps

I've been looking for this too.

http://www.marietharp.com/wordpress/purchase-maps/

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