Each stripe indicated how a band of seafloor ... Oceanic Plateau Formation by Seafloor Spreading Implied by Tamu Massif Magnetic Anomalies. William W. Sager et al. in Nature Geoscience, Vol.

and other researchers began using the fluxgate magnetometer to measure and map magnetic anomalies preserved in the seafloor rocks. The maps revealed a curious zebra-stripe pattern of magnetic ...

As new crust is produced in Earth’s mid-oceanic ridges and the seafloor spreads, they move in recognizable, stripe-like patterns. You can also spot magnetic anomalies—places with unusually hig ...

They realized that the pattern of reversals matched perfectly the magnetic profile they had compiled of the sea floor. This discovery, together with data from a 1964 research vessel, transformed ...