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Explain how the discovery of mid-ocean ridges and sea-floor spreading help provide evidence that finally led to the acceptance of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift within the scientific field.

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Sea floor spreading is the phenomena of new sea floor being created through mid-ocean ridges. Wegener proposed that the continents themselves move, which is untrue. It is the tectonic plates that move.

Explanation: early marine geologists to deduce that the mid-ocean ridges were formed by seafloor volcanoes

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