Ron G. Mason
Encyclopedia
Ron G. Mason was one of the oceanographers whose pioneering Cold War
geomagnetic survey work lead to the discovery of magnetic stripes around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
geomagnetic survey work lead to the discovery of magnetic stripes around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world. It separates the Eurasian Plate and North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and the African Plate from the South...
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Further reading
- Ron Mason's key work Oceanography 18, 1.
- Oceanography 16, 3.