This supported the theory that Harry Hess had put forth ... transformed the field of geology. It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally ...

This reduction, mostly resulting from a global slowdown in seafloor spreading, caused ocean basins to deepen. In the new work ...

In addition, the researchers calculated that heat flowing into the ocean from the hot mantle beneath would have decreased by about 8% overall from 15 million to 6 million years ago, with an even ...

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