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marishachu [46]
3 years ago
12

Which region of earth did John tuzo Wilson believe was broken into plates

Geography
2 answers:
Alexandra [31]3 years ago
7 0
<h2>Answer:</h2>

The region of earth that John tuzo Wilson believe was broken into plates are called Hotspots and the example was Hawaiian islands.

<h2>Explanation:</h2>

In 1963, Tuzo Wilson proposed that plates usually move over fixed 'hotspots' in the mantle of earth, forming volcanic island chains like Hawaii. In 1965, he followed this discovery with the idea of a third type of plate boundary called the transform faults. Unlike ridges and trenches, transform faults offset the crust horizontally, without creating or destroying crust.

Snowcat [4.5K]3 years ago
5 0

Answer

The region of the earth that John Tuzo Wilson believed was broken into plates was the “Hotspots” i.e. The Hawaiian Island.

Explanation

The two major contributions of John Tuzo Wilson towards the solidification of the theory of plate tectonics were the introduction of hotspots and the recognition of transform boundaries. The earlier scientific arguments concerning plate tectonic theory was the existence of volcanically active areas present in the middle of plates. The lack of explanation was addressed by John Tuzo who used the Hawaiian island as an example of an island chain that is volcanically active which was a sticking point for some opponents of the plate tectonic theory. He explained that the origins of volcanic rocks in such places are plumes rising from hotspots within stable core of mantle convection cell.


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