Access through your institution Buy or subscribe After obligatory national service (in his case, in the Royal Navy), he took a degree in geology and petrology at Cambridge in 1955. He then

spent a couple of years as a geologist in the Antarctic, with the fore-runner of the British Antarctic Survey, before returning to Cambridge to complete a Ph.D. on rocks dredged from the

North Atlantic. The work for which Matthews is perhaps best known — the identification of seafloor magnetic stripes as being due to oceanic spreading — was done with his first research

student, Fred Vine, and published in 1963. He discovered the seafloor spreading stripes in the Gulf of Aden during cruises on HMS _Owen_, as part of the international Indian Ocean expedition

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