Frederick Vine & Drummond H. Matthews
Life: June 17 1939 - Still Alive
Location: London, England
Occupation: Marine Geologist and Geophysicist
Location: London, England
Occupation: Marine Geologist and Geophysicist
Life: February 5 1931 - July 20 1997
Location: Porlock, Somerset
Occupation: Marine Geologist and Geophysicist
Location: Porlock, Somerset
Occupation: Marine Geologist and Geophysicist
History
(The reason why both are put together is they worked and researched together in the same university)
Matthews spent his time reviewing articles and collecting data in the Indian Ocean while Vine and his colleagues collaborated to make a 3-D to calculate magnetic anomalies from the data that Matthews collected. Soon they published their findings on a paper called "Magnetic Anomalies over Oceanic Ridges". They explained that some of the "strips" of crust where magnetized to our present North, but some where pointing in the opposite direction. The reasoning behind why some of the crust wasn't pointing North is when they become solid they point in the direction in which North was at the time and stayed in that state. They came up with magnetic stripping and polar reversal.
Matthews spent his time reviewing articles and collecting data in the Indian Ocean while Vine and his colleagues collaborated to make a 3-D to calculate magnetic anomalies from the data that Matthews collected. Soon they published their findings on a paper called "Magnetic Anomalies over Oceanic Ridges". They explained that some of the "strips" of crust where magnetized to our present North, but some where pointing in the opposite direction. The reasoning behind why some of the crust wasn't pointing North is when they become solid they point in the direction in which North was at the time and stayed in that state. They came up with magnetic stripping and polar reversal.
Resources
Richardson, Eliza. "Frederick J. Vine." Welcome! N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.