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 ...
Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the ...
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Long-lost seafloor is discovered beneath the Pacific OceanResearchers 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 ...
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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...
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