The driving mechanism for plate tectonics was proposed by
a. j. tuzo wilson
b. harry hess
c. george newman
d. alfred wegener

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by your question is the fourth choice or letter D.

In line with other previous and contemporaneous proposals, in 1912 the meteorologist Alfred Wegener amply described what he called continental drift, expanded in his 1915 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans and the scientific debate started that would end up fifty years later in the theory of plate tectonics.

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