How did Harry Hess contribute to science?

Answer 1

Harry Hess's discovery was important because it helped explain the theory of continental drift. His discovery, that on the sea floor magma pushes up which causes the plate tectonics to move which carries the continents with it, explains better reasoning to the theory. It also helped the scienctist to explain how the sea floor spreading is happening.

Answer 2

Harry Hess was a man that was born on May 24, 1906 and went to Asbury Park High School in New Jersey. He went to Yale in 1923. He was studying electrical engineering when he decided to take geology. He was not interested in science at an early age. He studdied the deep ocean floor.

Answer 3

Harry Hess suggested that continents do not move across the ocean crust. He made the theory of continental drift famous and somewhat accepted.

Answer 4

one of the fathers of the plate-tectonics theory

Answer 5

sea floor spreading

Answer 6

sea floor spreading

Answer 7

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