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Seabed Mapping: a Brief History from Meaningful Words Supplementary Material – S1 Seabed mapping: a brief history from meaningful words 1+ 1+, * Pedro Menandro and Alex Bastos 1Federal University of Espirito Santo, Marine Geosciences Lab/Department of Oceanography, Vitoria, 29075-9010, Brazil *[email protected] This Supplementary Information provide all the 454 references found and used for the analysis in a chronological order. (1) Bencker, H. The Bathymetric Sounds of the Oceans. Hydr. Rev 1930, No. 7, 64–97. (2) Littlehales, G. W. Sounding the Depths of the Ocean for Mapping the Conformation and Topography of the Bottom. Trans. AGU 1932, 13 (1), 33. https://doi.org/10.1029/TR013i001p00033. (3) Shepard, F. P. GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF THE OCEAN BOTTOM. Science 1935, 82 (2139), 614–615. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.82.2139.614. (4) Salvatori, H. SYMPOSIUM—APPLICATION OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS TO WAR AND POST‐WAR PROBLEMS OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY: GEOPHYSICS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 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