The GRACE-satellite gravity and geoid fields in analysing large-scale, cratonic or intracratonic basins

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 559-571

  Braitenberg, Carla ^a,c   Ebbing, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BARENTS SEA; CRATONIC BASIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THINNING; DENSITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY POTENTIAL; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; HIGH-DENSITY MATERIALS; LOWER CRUST; MICHIGAN; MOHO TOPOGRAPHY; RIFT BASIN; SATELLITE GRAVITY; SEDIMENTARY INFILL; SEISMIC INVESTIGATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UPPER MANTLE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRATON; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEOID; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; LOWER CRUST; MAPPING; POTENTIAL FIELD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRAIN; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA; AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; ARCTIC OCEAN; ASIA; BARENTS SEA; BRAZIL; CHINA; CONGO BASIN; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MICHIGAN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; PARANA BASIN; PARNAIBA BASIN; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN LOWLAND; SOLIMOES BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 67149120880     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2009.00793.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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