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The 19 pages that link to Harry Hess, each with the reason it gives.

• SubductionRelated: His seafloor-spreading model first required sinking ocean floor to balance creation.

• Seafloor spreadingRelated: Author of the seafloor spreading hypothesis, published as 'History of Ocean Basins'.

• PangaeaRelated: His mechanism turned Wegener's Pangaea into a physically possible history.

• Mid-ocean ridgeRelated: His 'geopoetry' paper made the ridge the factory of new oceanic crust, not just a curiosity.

• Continental driftRelated: His 'geopoetry' bridged Wegener's observations and the plate mechanism.

• Mid-Atlantic RidgeRelated: He had surveyed the ridge during the war and called it 'an oceanic rift'.

• Alfred WegenerRelated: His seafloor spreading supplied what Wegener never could: a workable driving mechanism.

• OphioliteRelated: Seafloor spreading made it plausible to identify ophiolites as former oceanic crust and mantle.

• Tectonic plateRelated: His model linked ocean-floor creation to the movement of lithospheric plates.

• Marie TharpRelated: His spreading hypothesis made sense of Tharp's rift and turned her maps into tectonic evidence.

• Arthur HolmesRelated: Hess later supplied ocean-floor evidence that complemented Holmes’s earlier convection proposal.

• Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesisRelated: His spreading mechanism gave the hypothesis the physical process its magnetic record required.

• Deep Sea Drilling ProjectRelated: The project’s sediment ages tested a hypothesis Hess had advanced before direct drilling evidence existed.

• J. Tuzo WilsonRelated: Hess’s ocean-floor model complemented Wilson’s account of plate motion.

• Ring of FireRelated: His spreading-consumption cycle supplied the recycling mechanism behind the ring's subduction zones.

• John Tuzo WilsonRelated: Hess’s account of ocean-floor creation complemented Wilson’s work on moving plate boundaries.

• Seafloor spreading hypothesisRelated: He framed seafloor spreading as 'geopoetry', an explicit guess later vindicated by magnetic evidence.

• GeodynamicsRelated: His model linked ocean-floor observations to sustained motion of Earth’s lithosphere.

• History of geophysicsRelated: His ocean-floor model supplied a mechanism that helped make plate tectonics persuasive.