Open AccessGlobal maps of the CRUST 2.0 crustal components stripped gravity disturbances
Author(s) -
Tenzer Robert,
Hamayun K.,
Vajda Peter
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: solid earth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67
H-Index - 298
eISSN - 2156-2202
pISSN - 0148-0227
DOI - 10.1029/2008jb006016
Subject(s) - crust , geology , geophysics , lithosphere , mantle (geology) , gravitational field , gravity anomaly , geopotential , isostasy , geoid , spherical harmonics , density contrast , gravimetry , seismology , geodesy , tectonics , physics , measured depth , paleontology , geotechnical engineering , quantum mechanics , astronomy , oil field , reservoir modeling
We use the CRUST 2.0 crustal model and the EGM08 geopotential model to compile global maps of the gravity disturbances corrected for the gravitational effects (attractions) of the topography and of the density contrasts of the oceans, sediments, ice, and the remaining crust down to the Moho discontinuity. Techniques for a spherical harmonic analysis of the gravity field are used to compute both the gravity disturbances and the topographic and bathymetric corrections with a spectral resolution complete to degree 180 of the spherical harmonics. The ice stripping correction is computed with a spectral resolution complete to degree 90. The sediment and consolidated crust stripping corrections are computed in spatial form by forward modeling their respective attractions. All data are evaluated on a 1 × 1 arc degree grid at the Earth's surface and provided in Data Sets S1–S5 in the auxiliary material for the scientific community for use in global geophysical studies. The complete crust‐stripped gravity disturbances (globally having a range of 1050 mGal) contain the gravitational signal coming dominantly from the global mantle lithosphere (upper mantle) morphology and density composition and partially from the sublithospheric density heterogeneities. Large errors are expected because of uncertainties of the CRUST 2.0 model (i.e., deviations of the CRUST 2.0 model density from the real Earth's crustal density heterogeneities and the Moho relief uncertainties).