An American geologist and Navy officer whose 1962 theory of seafloor spreading gave continental drift the physical mechanism it had lacked for half a century, turning Alfred Wegener's rejected idea into the accepted foundation of plate tectonics. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceNew York City, New York, United States 1 Defining ContributionProposed seafloor spreading in his 1962 report History of Ocean Basins: that the Earth's crust moves laterally away from long, volcanically active oceanic ridges. The idea supplied the mechanism continental drift had always lacked and sparked what is often called a revolution in the earth sciences. 1 Notable WorkHistory of Ocean Basins (1962) 1 Connections
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Wegener's rejected continental drift is the idea Hess's seafloor spreading gave a mechanism to, decades later.
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was an American geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II who is considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics.
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died in Woods Hole
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citizen of United States
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born in New York City
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