“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...
A review by marine biologists from The University of Western Australia has identified a need to prioritize future research of ...
The deep oceans and global seafloor are truly Earth's last frontier. They remain largely unexplored, yet are critical to our survival on this planet. This magnificent, full-color volume transports you ...
It's evidence of all that material initially thrown into the sky then falling back down through the water column and spreading out across the seafloor. Part of the motivation for the survey was to ...
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 ...
Scientists have now identified a strange slice of Earth deep below the Pacific that may explain why this region is currently ...
Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the ...
Geophysical phenomena ranging from earthquakes to continental drift are being explained by a new theory that gives promise of eventually relating geomagnetism and the earth's internal and orbital ...