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<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>.<Magnetic Anomalies Over Oceanic Ridges by F. J. Vine and D. H. Matthews>[1963 paper: magnetic anomalies and ocean-floor spreading]{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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