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Theory of Plate Tectonics

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The theory of Plate Tectonics has evolved from Harry Hess’s concept of “seafloor spreading”. He proposed this concept in the early 1960s. Hess’s hypothesis was accepted when Vine and Mathews used it in explaining linear magnetic anomalies of the ocean basins. In 1967, W. J. Morgan, and J. T. Wilson extended the idea of Hess and produced the theory of plate tectonics. The factors, which led to the theory of […]

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