Question

Plate Tectonics as theory was first presented by :
1. W.J. Morgan
2. A.N. Strahler
3. F.B. Taylor
4. Prof. Alfred Wegener

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : W.J. Morgan

Plate Tectonics as theory was first presented by W.J. Morgan.

• The term plate was first introduces by Canadian geophysicist Tuzo Wilson in 1965
• The detailed mechanism of plate tectonics has discussed by Parker and Mackenzie in 1967
• W. J. Morgan elaborated various aspects related to plate tectonics in 1968
• Prof. Hary Hess postulated the concept of plate tectonic in 1960

• Plate tectonics is the generally accepted scientific theory that considers the Earth's lithosphere to comprise a number of large of tectonic plates which have been slowly moving since about 3.4 billion years ago.
• The model builds on the concept of continental drift, an idea developed during the first decades of the 20th century.
• Plate-tectonics came to be generally accepted by geoscientists after seafloor spreading was validated in the mid to late 1960s.