The First Person to Describe the Mechanism of Seafloor Spreading

question 23

Multiple Choice

The first person to describe the mechanism of seafloor spreading by which continents drifted apart from one another was:

• A) Sir Francis Bacon.
• B) Alfred Wegener.
• C) Harry Hess.
• D) Edward Suess.
• E) Charles Darwin.

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