Vine and Matthews: magnetic patterns and seafloor spreading

What changed

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 1963 magnetic-anomaly model connecting ridge patterns, reversals and seafloor spreading.

Evidence

Original sources and institutional historical accounts support the stated contribution. The reading boundary is recorded at each source; this assessment is not an independent scientific verification.

Contributors

• F. J. Vine · SCIENCE: Named source contributor to this scoped work; individual labor shares are not measured.
• D. H. Matthews · SCIENCE: Named source contributor to this scoped work; individual labor shares are not measured.

• Vine and Matthews, Magnetic Anomalies over Oceanic Ridges, Nature 199, 947–949 (1963)

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