Wikipedia's topic entry on plate tectonics, including its own account of how Alfred Wegener's 1912 to 1915 continental drift proposal lacked a physical mechanism, and how seafloor spreading and magnetic reversal evidence gathered between 1959 and 1963 supplied it, leading to the formal definition of plate tectonics by 1965 to 1967.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
Source Typereference
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A community edited tertiary reference, used here for its own account of the specific historical sequence: Wegener's proposal lacking a mechanism, followed by the seafloor spreading and magnetic reversal work of 1959 to 1963. Cross-checked during research against the atlas's own account of Harry Hess and his role in that work. Sources
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