For 10 points, name this process of creating oceanic crust that explains continental drift.
One mechanism of this process was supported by Alexander du Toit, though it garnered little support elsewhere. Seton et al. questioned a rapid Cretaceous increase in this process in a 2008 paper. This process was first proposed by Harry Hess, and is evidenced by magnetic stripes, proposed by the Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis in 1963. This phenomenon is the result of convection currents in the asthenosphere and lithosphere, where material cools below the Curie temperature, and occurs rapidly in the East Pacific and slowly in the North Atlantic. For 10 points, name this process of creating oceanic crust that explains continental drift.
One mechanism of this process was supported by Alexander du Toit, though it garnered little support elsewhere.
seafloor spreading [prompt on continental drift] &lt;Fulgenzi&gt;