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Frederick John Vine FRS (born 17 June 1939) is an English marine geologist and geophysicist. He made key contributions to the theory of plate tectonics, helping to show that the seafloor spreads from mid-ocean ridges with a symmetrical pattern of magnetic reversals in the basalt rocks on either side.
Frederick John Vine (* 17. Juni 1939 in Chiswick, London) ist ein britischer Geologe und Geophysiker
Frederick Vine is best known for his work on the magnetic lineations observed at sea. He has written a number of papers (some alone, some with other authors) in which these are explained as a ‘tape recording’ of the reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field on the moving floor of the ocean.
Fred Vine and Drummond Matthews made a significant contribution to the development of plate tectonics theory in 1963, when their paper, 'Magnetic anomalies over ocean ridges' was published. It explained the first scientific test for sea floor spreading.
Key Research Interests. Palaeomagnetism, sea floor spreading and plate tectonics, ophiolites (upthrust fragments of oceanic lithosphere exposed on land), physical properties of crustal rocks, energy resources. Publications: EPrints Digital Repository.
Frederick J. Vine is best known for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and has had a distinguished career as a geologist and geophysicist. Born in London, England, Vine was educated at Latymer Upper School, London, and St. John's College, Cambridge University.
English Geophysicist. I n the 1960s Frederick J. Vine and his colleague Drummond Matthews (1931- ) emerged as foremost proponents of the theory of plate tectonics —the theory that the earth's crust is divided into shifting plates that include the continents embedded on their surface.
