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Harry Hess and Robert Dietz Proposed That the Oceanic Crust

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Harry Hess and Robert Dietz proposed that the oceanic crust in the Atlantic Ocean was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and that this process moved the continents apart from one another. They called this process:


A) seafloor spreading
B) continental drift
C) plate tectonics
D) Gondwana

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