KnowraVine–Matthews–Morley hypothesisLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis, each with the reason it gives.All 9Related 9Plate tectonicsRelated: The decisive prediction that turned seafloor spreading into accepted fact.Seafloor spreadingRelated: The decisive confirmation that converted Hess's hypothesis into accepted theory.PaleomagnetismRelated: The hypothesis that turned magnetic stripes into proof of seafloor spreading.Mid-ocean ridgeRelated: The stripes flank the ridge axis symmetrically, which converted spreading from hypothesis to fact.Continental driftRelated: The decisive confirmation that turned drift from heresy into consensus.Mid-Atlantic RidgeRelated: The hypothesis that turned the ridge into decisive evidence for plate tectonics.Marie TharpRelated: It converted the ridges from puzzling topography into the mechanism of plate motion.Harry HessRelated: This hypothesis provided a quantitative, testable confirmation of the spreading Hess had proposed.Seafloor spreading hypothesisRelated: The decisive test: striped magnetic anomalies proved spreading operates exactly as Hess imagined.