Well if you mean what does the controlled part of a scientific investigation, it is the part of the investigation that will be your control or your base, untouched, original, data and such.
Yes it developed but am not really sure what you mean
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He realized that the Earth's crust had been moving away on each side of oceanic ridges, down the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, that were long and volcanically active. He published his theory and it came to be called “seafloor spreading.”