ABSTRACT
This chapter proposed that the conveyor belts might also act as tape recorders that record reversals in the polarity of the earth's magnetic field in the 'fossil' magnetism of the oceanic crust. In January 1962, Cambridge was host to the 10th Inter-University Geological Congress, an annual three-day meeting, organized primarily by undergraduates, the venue for which rotated around British universities that offered degree programs in geology. The theme for this particular meeting was "The Evolution of the North Atlantic," and the lead, guest speaker was Professor Harry Hess of Princeton University. At the Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Continental Drift held in London on March 19–20, 1964, Vic Vacquier, the only speaker to mention the hypothesis, said that this attractive mechanism is probably not adequate to account for all the facts of observation. Teddy Bullard's department included a marine geophysics section headed by Dr. Maurice Hill, and funded largely by the US Office of Naval Research.
