Harry Hess and Robert Dietz proposed that the oceanic crust in the Atlantic Ocean was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and that this process moved the continents apart from one another. They called this process

A. seafloor spreading.
B. Gondwana.
C. plate tectonics.
D. continental drift.


Answer: A

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