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Explained major ocean-ridge magnetic anomaly patterns through alternating normal and reversed magnetization carried away from spreading ridges, linking geological observations to magnetic-field reversals.
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The source presents a model consistent with earlier spreading and reversal ideas, and explicitly does not fit every observed profile in detail. This paper is one contribution to plate tectonics, not sole authorship of the whole theory. Historical computer modelling is not credited to a modern AI provider.
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F. J. Vine; D. H. Matthews
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Vine and Matthews: magnetic patterns and seafloor spreading
Explained major ocean-ridge magnetic anomaly patterns through alternating normal and reversed magnetization carried away from spreading ridges, linking geological observations to magnetic-field reversals.
Scientific scope
The source presents a model consistent with earlier spreading and reversal ideas, and explicitly does not fit every observed profile in detail. This paper is one contribution to plate tectonics, not sole authorship of the whole theory. Historical computer modelling is not credited to a modern AI provider.
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People and systems
F. J. Vine; D. H. Matthews
Listed source contributors; individual labor shares are not measured