Sea-Floor Spreading

Working through the contributions of some key papers:

• 1960    Hess: “geopoetry” essay
• 1961    Dietz: suggests sea-floor spreading
• 1961    Mason and Raff: Zebra map of northeast Pacific
• 1963    Vine and Matthews: magnetic anomalies, reversals, spreading
• 1963    Cox, Doell and Dalrymple: magnetic time scale #1
• 1964    Morley: spreading – delayed publication
• 1965    Vine and Wilson: compare anomalies to magnetic time scales
• 1966    Pitman and Heirtzler: Eltanin-19 line
• 1966    Magnetic time scale essentially complete
• 1966    Heirtzler, LePichon & Baron: Map of magnetic anomalies along Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland
• 1966    Vine: Summary paper (that ties it all together)