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Originally Posted by Rob_K
Hi Steve! You precipitated a trip down memory lane as I dusted off a lot of my old geology text books! These were written at a time when continental drift was a relatively new theory (in wide acceptance anyway), and as far as I can gather, the suggestion that magnetic anomolies along oceanic ridges could be related to the spreading mechanism was first made by F J Vine and D H Matthews in an article titled "Magnetic Anomolies Over Oceanic Ridges", in "Nature", vol 199, p947, 1963.
Stand to be corrected on that, haven't gone the Wikipedia route!
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You're right there, Rob. Took me down memory lane too....1st year geology class
Stuff you forget about as you specialise