Frederick John Vine was an English marine geologist and geophysicist, born in 1939 in Chiswick, London, and died in 2024 in Norwich, Norfolk. He made a key contribution to the theory of plate tectonics by helping establish that the ocean floor spreads outward from mid-ocean ridges, demonstrating that this spreading produces a symmetrical pattern of magnetic reversals frozen into the basalt rock on either side of a ridge. Published with Drummond Matthews as the Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis, the finding showed that these parallel magnetic strips could be read like a tape recording of Earth's past magnetic field as one travels away from the ridge crest.
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Vine and his PhD adviser at Cambridge University, Drummond Hoyle Matthews, were first to publish the theory in September 1963.
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