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Drummond Matthews
Geophysicist
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Drummond Hoyle Matthews was a British marine geologist and geophysicist, born in 1931 and died in 1997. He identified a pattern of parallel magnetic anomalies running on either side of mid ocean ridges, and with Fred Vine explained the pattern through reversals of Earth's magnetic field recorded in the ocean floor basalt, published as the Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis. The finding provided crucial validation for Harry Hess's seafloor spreading concept and allowed scientists to estimate spreading rates for different ocean ridge sections; Matthews received the Geological Society of London's Wollaston Medal in 1989.
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Vine-Matthews-Morley Hypothesis (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationConcepts Credited: Vine-Matthews-Morley Hypothesis, History section, paragraph naming Vine and Matthews as first to publish (Matthews credit)Quote, Concepts Credited: Vine-Matthews-Morley Hypothesis, History section, paragraph naming Vine and Matthews as first to publish (Matthews credit)
Vine and his PhD adviser at Cambridge University, Drummond Hoyle Matthews, were first to publish the theory in September 1963.
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