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Alfred Wegener tried to explain how continental drift took place, but he had no concrete evidence about how the continents moved. He had to explain what force is pushing and pulling the continents. And mainly in the early 1900s, most geologists thought that mountains formed because Earth was slowly cooling and shrinking. So most geologists would have to change their ideas of how mountains formed. Then in 1960 Harry Hess, an American geologist, he thought about the ocean floor in relation to the problem of continental drift. He proposed a process called sea-floor spreading. In sea-floor spreading, the sea floor spreads apart along both sides of a mid-ocean ridge as new crust is added. The ocean floors move like conveyor belts, carrying the continents with them. Hess soon found evidence from molten material, magnetic stripes, and rock samples from the mid-ocean ridges. And he proved that Wegener's theory wasn't wrong.
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