Experiments and studies that supplied evidence for the large-scale history of the solid Earth, including continental drift, magnetic striping of the sea floor and the iridium layer at the end of the Cretaceous. An experiment belongs here when its cited article describes it as geological evidence or a geological study. It excludes weather and climate programs. Browse By lists these entries together so that a reader can move from one to the next and compare how each is described in the sources of the atlas.
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Continental drift (Wikipedia)
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The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, and expanded into book form with his 1915 publication, Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (The Origin of Continents and Oceans).
Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis (Wikipedia)
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The Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis, also known as the Morley-Vine-Matthews hypothesis, was the first key scientific test of the seafloor spreading theory of continental drift and plate tectonics.
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