I've just been reading in the BBC magazine, "Focus", that Harry Hess (apart from having an impressive set of pipes), was the first scientist to propose the idea of "seafloor spreading", whereby convection within the mantle brings molten material to the surface at mid-ocean ridges, slowly pushing the continents apart. Of course, this was years before the Harem Scarem debut, when he was Head of Geology at Princeton University in 1962. :-)http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925822,925822#msg-925822Sun, 26 May 2013 07:55:12 +1000 Phorum 5.2.16 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925822,925951#msg-925951 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925822,925951#msg-925951 moodswings NoticeboardWed, 09 Jan 2013 03:41:05 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925822,925822#msg-925822 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925822,925822#msg-925822
Of course, this was years before the Harem Scarem debut, when he was Head of Geology at Princeton University in 1962.

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