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He pioneered two discoveries, which eventually led to the acceptance of plate tectonics.
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He developed the first version of the masterpiece ´The origin of the continents and oceans´.
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The description of its operations and the results of the expedition were published by the Navy and Princeton University in this year.
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He worked on the investigation of: seismic reflection and refraction in ocean platforms, ocean background photography, submarine sound transmission, etc.
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McKenzie published several fundamental articles for the development of the plate tectonics theory, which has become an essential pillar of modern geology, and that explains that the Earth's crust is composed of a few rigid plates that move
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He conducted an investigation into a part of an oceanic ridge in the northwest Indian Ocean
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He published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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The theory of the existence of hot spots (mantle feathers) was developed by him that year
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He published reports on the electrical conductivity of the rocks of the lower continental crust
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He made his first major contribution (to relate the magnetic anomalies of alternating polarity).
