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Harry Hammond Hess

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Harry Hammond Hess's Degrees

PhD Geology Princeton University

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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) (745)
Seismic Anisotropy of the Uppermost Mantle under Oceans (1964) (721)
STILLWATER IGNEOUS COMPLEX, MONTANA A QUANTITATIVE MINERALOGICAL STUDY (1960) (349)
Pyroxenes in the Crystallization of Basaltic Magma (1951) (293)
Basalts : the Poldervaart treatise on rocks of basaltic composition (1967) (188)
Serpentines, Orogeny, and Epeirogeny (1955) (177)
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) (132)
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) (58)
Metamorphic differentiation at contacts between serpentinite and siliceous country rocks (1936) (52)
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) (42)
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)
Floor of the North Pacific Ocean (1940) (17)
GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE ISLAND OF MARGARITA, PART I (1949) (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)
Studies in earth and space sciences;: A memoir in honor of Harry Hammond Hess (1972) (11)
The greatest depth in the oceans (1950) (11)
A bore-hole in the Bahamas (1933) (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)
GEOLOGY OF THE LA VICTORIA AREA, ARAGUA, VENEZUELA (1960) (7)
A REVIEW OF SPACE RESEARCH (1962) (7)
Pyroxenes of common mafic magmas. part 2. (1941) (6)
Submerged river‐valleys of the Bahamas (1933) (5)
SUBMERGED VALLEYS ON CONTINENTAL SLOPES AND CHANGES OF SEA LEVEL. (1936) (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)
The Mohole Project, Phase 2 (1966) (1)
FURTHER DISCUSSION ON SUBMERGED CANYONS. (1937) (1)
A new bathymetric chart of the Caribbean area (1939) (1)
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY: Major Structural Trends of the Western North Pacific (1947) (0)
Report of the Chairman of the Special Committee on Geophysical and Geological Study of Ocean Basins, 1947–1948 (1948) (0)
Sampling and examination of lunar surface materials Preliminary report (1964) (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)
Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Arthur F. Buddington (1957) (0)
Further Discussion on Submerged Canyons (1937) (0)
Manned Lunar Landing Defended (1963) (0)
Augite in Hawaiian basalt (1944) (0)
National Goals in Space (1963) (0)
Mohole: preliminary drilling. (1966) (0)
Comments On the Pacific Basin (1966) (0)
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (0)
Crystallization of pyroxenes and the pigeonite problem (1940) (0)
Report of special committee on geophysical and geological study of oceanic basins (1935) (0)
Richard Montgomery Field (1962) (0)

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