Harry Hess in 1961 resurrected Wegener's continental drift hypothesis and also he mantle convection idea of Arthur Holmes by postulating the theory of sea floor spreading.
After Wegener's postulation of the continental drift hypothesis, not much was done.
It was only around 1931 that Arthur Holmes came up with the idea of a convecting mantle.
After the second world war passed, new instruments were used to investigate and map the ocean floor.
Through this, Arthur Holmes came up with the idea of a spreading sea floor.
This gave a full gleam picture to the idea of a moving earth and the more accepted terminology of "Plate tectonics " came to the fore.
