15 ore 13 min, 1 gen 1953 anni - Discovery of Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Marie Thrap, a geologist from America discovered a rift valley. It was later discovered that it actually ran 40,000 nautical miles along the ocean floor.

This event was significant because it proved the theory of continental drift, which is now referred to as plate tectonics.

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