Select the item below that was NOT cited by Hess cited in support for his concept of very young seafloors.
A) Deep-sea trenches
B) Truncation of seamounts on a descending conveyor belt
C) Relatively small number of volcanic seamounts on Earth
D) Paleomagnetic striping of the seafloor
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