Bulletin Géodésique (1946-1975)

, Volume 101, Issue 1, pp 299–317 | Cite as

Model anomalies for the earth from crustal data

  • Dan Sharni
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Abstract

Crustal data of surface elevations and depth of Moho (and densities) can be utilized to form model-earth anomalies. These model-anomalies can closely approximate the free-air anomaly field of the earth, and could thus be used to predict the latter.

A review of several such models is presented, with some elaboration on model developments, procedures, data analysis and accuracies.

One of the models approaches a prediction accuracy of ±10 mgal for5°×5° mean free-air anomalies, whose r.m.s. value was about30% higher.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dan Sharni
    • 1
  1. 1.HaifaIsrael

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