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miss Akunina [59]
3 years ago
5

Katrina wanted to find out more about Wegener’s hypothesis because it didn’t explain how continental drift took place. Explain h

ow scientists discovered the mechanism for the continents moving.
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1 answer:
rosijanka [135]3 years ago
5 0

<u>Answer and Explanation:</u>

The mechanism which is responsible for moving the plates that bring change in the position of the continents is the convection in the asthenosphere.

Henry Hess, a geologist and an American Navy officer in the World War II, discovered that the sea floor and the the Mid Atlantic Ridge is spreading which helped the the scientists in studying and understanding the mechanism of how the plates move.

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