Frederick Vine

Frederick John Vine ( born June 17, 1939 in Chiswick, London ) is a British geologist and geophysicist.

Vine studied at Cambridge University (St. John 's College ) Natural Sciences with a bachelor 's degree in 1962 and a PhD in marine geophysics in 1965. 1967 he was Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

Vine was from 1970 Reader and from 1974 to 1998 professor at the University of East Anglia. 1977 to 1980 and 1993 to 1998 he was dean. By 2008 he was a member of this University as Professor Emeritus.

He made ​​major contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. With Drummond Matthews, he interpreted the be incurred in paleomagnetic investigations strips on either side of the mid-ocean ridges as a result of the formation and spreading of the ocean floor. That was also the subject of his dissertation at Cambridge in Matthews. They also published in Nature in 1963. Regardless also pursued the Canadian Lawrence Morley ( 1920-2013 ) this idea to prove the spreading of ocean floors. The concept of spreading of the ocean floor at that time was by Harry Hammond Hess and Robert S. Dietz ( Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor, Nature, Volume 190, 1961, pp. 854-857 ) known and the paleomagnetic basics came from the work of Allan V. Cox and his colleagues.

Further work related to the ophiolites in the Troodos mountains South Cyprus ( with EM Moores ), the history of the earth's magnetic field ( with RA Livermore ), electrical conductivity of rocks from the lower crust ( with RG Ross).

In 1981 he was awarded the Balzan Prize and 1982, the Hughes Medal. In 1968 he received the Arthur L. Day Medal, 1971, the Bigsby Medal and 2007 the Prestwich Medal of the Geological Society of London and in 1973 the Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1974 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Writings

  • With Matthews Magnetic Anomalies Over Oceanic Ridge, Nature, vol 199, 1963, pp. 947-949
  • Philip Kearey and Frederick J. Vine: Global tectonics. 1990, 2nd edition 1996, 3rd edition 2009.
  • Geologist ( 20th century)
  • Geophysicists
  • University teachers ( Norwich)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1939
  • Man
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