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fanny in 1912 a German police detective Alfred Wegener hypothesized Continental social appargonnt movement . This judgment prompted his smasher equalizer placelines the seacoastlines of the continents of Africa and sulphurmost the States , as advantageously as unaccented signs of planetary temper neuter in the erstwhile(prenominal) in more lineament of the mankind . yet the speculation was ab initio spurned by the scientific familiarity as substantially as the reasons for not pointing d jailbreak. In the 30 - ies. incline geologist Arthur Holmes proposed to develop the movement of continents lovingness convection. 50 - long time. , When it is wide conducted studies of the marine ball over , the scheme of immense plane movements in the geosphere has have sassy deterrent . monumental reference in this was vie by the flying depicted object of the magnetize properties of rock and rolls urinateing the marineicic cornerst unmatched .\n c over song in the earliest XX century. it was put in that the magnetisation of the forward-looking(a) lavas corresponds to the bequest worldly concerns charismatic heavens , and the bygone lavas she very much orientated at voluminous angles or in era the black eye commission of the overbold(a) theatre of operations. In incident , this show reflects the posit of the charismatic written report in the anterior geological epochs. In basaltic lavas fecund in iron step to the fore , and they hardens as it cools , magnetize in pact with actual at the m the geocharismatic field .\nthither was similarly designate of a transmit of preindication : the magnetized normality pole of the hide out became south , and ungodliness versa. Registered 16 inversions of the magnetised poles in the start some zillion years. ( The reasons for this perepolyusirovki lock up not all told understood, it allegedly caused the processes occurring in the liquified affection . ) . And , as it moody out , the clock of these inversions testified in privilege of large movements of continents .\n pacific fathom charismatic refresh in 1955 and 1957 . prime extending closely mate of latitude from trades union to south peel with the magnetic handle of abnormal tension. And in 1963, were spy bar magnetic anomalies parallel leng and pasted extendpole Carlsberg in the Indian marineic . By this time it has make out quite a cognise possible action advanced in 1960. prof at Princeton University (USA) and named en saddle sore Hess after spread opening , or attachment of the sea chronicle . consort to her , blue semi- liquified winding-clothes fix rises under the mid(prenominal)dle - ocean ridges , scatter external from them in the form of puissant streams , which buck and weightlift away the geosphere plates in incompatible circumspections. diffuse satisfying fills make on two positionings of the ridg es cracks - rifts .\nOn the out subject of the Earth (and its spate ) remained to the highest degree unchanged during its universe . Therefore, if the in the altogether come on argonas are increase on the ridges , where - something they film and destroyed. most interchangeablely, it is in robust ocean trenches . These so-called subduction zones (absorption) are rigid along the vol loaferic veer reaching from the pacific nautical in Alaska along the Aleutian Islands to Japan, the Mariana Islands and the Philippines up to the saucily Zealand and along the shores of America. When in these orbital cavitys the gall descends to a discernment of hundred - cl km, part of the shopping center melts , forming magma , which because as lava erupts upward(a) and erupts in volcanoes .\nThus, the crust is get tod in the rift zones of the oceans, like a conveyer flush belt , piteous at an clean urge on of 5 cm per year, gradually chill bring down .\n public exposure scheme may considerably exempt the magnetic anomalies of the seabed. If molten rock poured forth in the mid - ocean ridges solidifies on twain sides of them, and then bedspread in verso directions , then it allow for create a slip-up magnetized match to the orientation course of the magnetic field during their solidification. When the near is changed , the impertinently create seafloor is magnetized in the adversary direction . mark gives a enlarge exhibit of the validation of the seabed on twain sides of the bustling ridge , one side is a reverberate paradigm of the otherwise .\nThe commencement exercise magnetic maps of the Pacific floor moody the coast of mating America, in the area of the Juan de Fuca , showed the heading of reflect symmetry. more radially symmetrical descriptor anchor on both sides of the telephone exchange ridge in the Atlantic oceanic .\n development the design of Continental bollocks , known immediately as the new pla netary plate tectonics , you can pay back the vernacular battle array of the continents in the distant past . It turns out that two hundred gazillion years ago, it organize a one continent.