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 ...

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

The study utilized math and models to understand how the 'area ... Researchers also think the sea level's plummeting and the ...