The first person to describe the mechanism of seafloor spreading by which continents drifted apart from one another was:
A) Sir Francis Bacon.
B) Alfred Wegener.
C) Harry Hess.
D) Edward Suess.
E) Charles Darwin.

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Harry Hess first proposed the idea of seafloor spreading in 1960, which explained how new oceanic crust was forming at mid-ocean ridges and spreading outwards, causing the continents to move apart from each other over millions of years.

The First Person to Describe the Mechanism of Seafloor Spreading