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According to Wikipedia, Harry Hammond Hess was an American geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II who is considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics. He is best known for his theories on sea floor spreading, specifically work on relationships between island arcs, seafloor gravity anomalies, and serpentinized peridotite, suggesting that the convection of the Earth's mantle was the driving force behind this process.

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Harry Hammond Hess's Published Works

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The history of ocean basins (1962) (738)
Seismic Anisotropy of the Uppermost Mantle under Oceans (1964) (715)
STILLWATER IGNEOUS COMPLEX, MONTANA A QUANTITATIVE MINERALOGICAL STUDY (1960) (349)
Pyroxenes in the Crystallization of Basaltic Magma (1951) (290)
Basalts : the Poldervaart treatise on rocks of basaltic composition (1967) (187)
Serpentines, Orogeny, and Epeirogeny (1955) (175)
MAJOR STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC, AN INTERPRETATION OF H.O. 5485, BATHYMETRIC CHART, KOREA TO NEW GUINEA (1948) (138)
Drowned ancient islands of the Pacific Basin (1946) (130)
The Floor of the North Pacific Ocean (1942) (94)
CARIBBEAN RESEARCH PROJECT (1953) (80)
A primary peridotite magma (1938) (70)
THe Moore County meteorite: A further study with comment on its primordial environment (1949) (62)
Disposal of radioactive waste on land (1958) (57)
Metamorphic differentiation at contacts between serpentinite and siliceous country rocks (1936) (51)
Part 2. The deeper structure of the Atlantic - Geological hypotheses and the earth's crust under the oceans (1954) (51)
The problem of serpentinization and the origin of certain chrysotile asbestos, talc, and soapstone deposits (1933) (41)
The AMSOC hole to the Earth's mantle (1959) (39)
Extreme Fractional crystallization of a basaltic magma: The stillwater igneous complex (1939) (38)
Caribbean geological investigations (1966) (35)
SEA-FLOOR SPREADING, (1968) (35)
CARIBBEAN RESEARCH PROJECT, 1965, AND BATHYMETRIC CHART (1966) (33)
CARIBBEAN RESEARCH PROJECT: PROGRESS REPORT (1960) (29)
Hydrothermal metamorphism of an ultrabasic intrusive at Schuyler, Virginia (1933) (22)
Optical properties and chemical composition of magnesian orthopyroxenes (1940) (20)
The magnetic properties and differentiation of dolerite sills; a critical discussion (1956) (18)
Unit cell dimensions of clinoenstatite and pigeonite in relation to other common clinopyroxenes (1953) (18)
GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE ISLAND OF MARGARITA, PART I (1949) (17)
Floor of the North Pacific Ocean (1940) (17)
Radium content of ultramafic igneous rocks; II, Geological and chemical implications (1949) (13)
Antigorite from the vicinity of caracas, Venezuela (1952) (13)
Primary banding in norite and gabbro (1938) (13)
A bore-hole in the Bahamas (1933) (11)
The greatest depth in the oceans (1950) (11)
Studies in earth and space sciences;: A memoir in honor of Harry Hammond Hess (1972) (11)
Geological interpretation of data collected on cruise of U.S.S. Barracuda in the West Indies—Preliminary report (1937) (10)
Petrology, Structure, and Relation to Tectonics of Porphyry Intrusions in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana (1937) (8)
Modal analysis of igneous rocks by x-ray diffraction methods with examples from Saint Paul's Rock and an olivine nodule (1969) (8)
A REVIEW OF SPACE RESEARCH (1962) (7)
GEOLOGY OF THE LA VICTORIA AREA, ARAGUA, VENEZUELA (1960) (7)
Pyroxenes of common mafic magmas. part 2. (1941) (6)
SUBMERGED VALLEYS ON CONTINENTAL SLOPES AND CHANGES OF SEA LEVEL. (1936) (5)
Submerged river‐valleys of the Bahamas (1933) (5)
A primary ultramafic magma (1937) (3)
Interpretation of gravity‐anomalies and sounding‐profiles obtained in the West Indies by the International Expedition to the West Indies in 1932 (1932) (3)
The problem of serpentinization; reply (1935) (2)
Scientific Objectives of Mohole, and Predicted Section: ABSTRACT (1960) (1)
A new bathymetric chart of the Caribbean area (1939) (1)
FURTHER DISCUSSION ON SUBMERGED CANYONS. (1937) (1)
The Mohole Project, Phase 2 (1966) (1)
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (0)
Manned Lunar Landing Defended (1963) (0)
Report of the Chairman of the Special Committee on Geophysical and Geological Study of Ocean Basins, 1947–1948 (1948) (0)
Sixteenth award of the William Bowie Medal (1954) (0)
Statement by Dr. H. H. Hess. . .before the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, U. S. Senate (1965) (0)
Comments On the Pacific Basin (1966) (0)
Augite in Hawaiian basalt (1944) (0)
Further Discussion on Submerged Canyons (1937) (0)
Report of special committee on geophysical and geological study of oceanic basins (1935) (0)
Mohole: preliminary drilling. (1966) (0)
Sampling and examination of lunar surface materials Preliminary report (1964) (0)
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY: Major Structural Trends of the Western North Pacific (1947) (0)
Richard Montgomery Field (1962) (0)
Crystallization of pyroxenes and the pigeonite problem (1940) (0)
Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Arthur F. Buddington (1957) (0)
National Goals in Space (1963) (0)

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