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How did Marie Tharp help prove plate tectonics?

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Tharp, working with Bruce Heezen, identified (1952) the Mid-Atlantic ridge and rift valley; when Heezen's group confirmed that seismic activity along the ridge was centered on the rift, it provided solid evidence of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics ...

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