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sight, one cannot resist urging him onward. Just another thought or two and Dietz
might have made the connection that in a few years would sweep the geological
community. But he stops just short.
FIGURE 19 . Robert S. Dietz (1914-1995) at age twenty-two. Source : Scripps Institution of
Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Instead of delving further into the question of whether Hess or Dietz deserves
priority for seafloor spreading, about which much has been written, 16 let us review
what another geologist had to say:
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