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A rising-ridge and moving-mantle model connects ocean-basin observations with transport of continents without their ploughing through a fixed ocean crust.
Scientific scope
A rising-ridge and moving-mantle model connects ocean-basin observations with transport of continents without their ploughing through a fixed ocean crust. This is a historical hypothesis. Its assumptions about crustal hydration and Earth's early history are not all retained in modern plate tectonics, and the report is not direct experimental verification.
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- Harry Hammond Hess · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
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