Abyssal plains were not recognized as distinct physiographic features of the sea floor until the late 1940s and, until very recently, none had been studied on a systematic basis. They are poorly preserved in the sedimentary record, because they tend to be consumed by the subduction process.
The first man to discover that the earth moves around the sun was an Italian scientist named Galileo Galilei.
No, Galileo is credited with discovering the telescope. The discovery that the Earth was round was thousands of years earlier. He did agree with Copernicus that the earth revo â¦ lved around the sun. Around 150 AD, Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek geographer, drew maps that showed the earth as curved.