History_of_Geology on Nostr: He linked seafloor spreading to continental geological features like mountain ranges. ...

He linked seafloor spreading to continental geological features like mountain ranges. The term Wilson Cycle is now used to refer to the cyclical process by which an old ocean basin closes, doing so generating a mountain systems, and new ocean basins eventually open.

https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/sp470-2019-58