In 1963, Fred Vine, Drummond Matthews, and others found that the crust surrounding the midocean ridges showed alternating bands -- each band magnetized with a polarity opposite the surrounding bands.

Only limited evidence of sea level changes over the past 15 million years is available from coastal rock layers.

“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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