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Harry Hess developed the theory of seafloor spreading in the 1950s and 1960s. He observed that the ocean floor contains mid-ocean ridges, divergent boundaries where new crust is formed through volcanic activity. As new crust forms at the ridges, older crust is pushed apart. The oldest ocean crust occurs at trenches near continents, where crust is destroyed through subduction under the continental plates. Thus seafloor spreading continually recycles the ocean crust, with new crust forming at ridges and old c

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