F. J. Vine and D. H. Matthews connected the pattern of marine magnetic stripes with spreading ocean floor and changing magnetic polarity. Their model relates a spatial magnetic sequence to the history carried away from a spreading ridge.[ref]
With an independent polarity chronology, distances from the ridge constrain spreading rates. This makes a measurable magnetic pattern evidence for a dynamical process.

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