In several of these reconstructions, opening of the southern segment(s) by seafloor spreading prior to Aptian-Albian time is accompanied by contemporaneous strike-slip motion along an intraplate ...

They eventually merge in the vicinity of a margin-parallel, basement peridotite ridge to give rise to a continuous crust that records reversals in the Earth's magnetic field from the time of anomaly ...

It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally proposed by Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It convinced many that plate tectonics was the best ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of long-lost seafloor below the Pacific Ocean, which could rewrite Earth's history. They discovered remnants of an ancient seafloor that is likely a piece of a ...

“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...