Harry Hammond Hess helped confirmed this mechanism, which apparently functions more through slab pull than ridge push.
The fact that the sea level had a highstand in the mid-Cretaceous can be explained by "pulse" in this process. This theory was first tested in measurements attempting to confirm the Vine-Matthews Hypothesis. Arthur Holmes presaged this model by postulating that convection cells could drive this process, which was confirmed by looking at the magnetic striping of rocks around ridges. Harry Hammond Hess helped confirmed this mechanism, which apparently functions more through slab pull than ridge push. This process occurs through upwelling of magma at mid-oceanic ridges, which are accommodated by subduction. For 10 points, name this process that drives continental drift.
The fact that the sea level had a highstand in the mid-Cretaceous can be explained by "pulse" in this process.
{Seafloor Spreading}