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Science 22 October 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3695, pp. 485 - 489
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3695.485
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Magnetic Anomalies over a Young Oceanic Ridge off Vancouver Island

F. J. Vine 1 and J. Tuzo Wilson 2

1 Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
2 Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

The recent speculation that the magnetic anomalies observed over oceanic ridges might be explained in terms of ocean-floor spreading and periodic reversals of the earth's magnetic field may now be reexamined in the light of suggested reversals during the past 4 million years and the newly described Juan de Fuca Ridge.


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