The effect of the Mid‐Atlantic ridge in terms of gravity anomalies, geoidal undulations, and deflections of the vertical

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Fischer
1978 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-470
Author(s):  
Mark S. Todd

This paper addresses the development of an inertial navigation system into a land-based geodetic survey system by the United States Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories from the Position and Azimuth Determining System (PADS) to the Rapid Geodetic Survey System (RGSS). It contains a brief description of the inertial platform and its operation to obtain position, elevation, gravity anomalies and deflections of the vertical. A summary of test results are included. Potential utilization and improvements are also addressed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein Abd-Elmotaal ◽  
Norbert Kühtreiber

<p>It is used to state that all geoid determination techniques should yield to the same geoid if the indirect effect is properly taken into account (Heiskanen and Moritz, 1967). The current study compares different geoid determination techniques for Austria. The used techniques are the gravimetric, astrogravimetric and astrogeodetic geoid determination techniques. The available data sets (gravity, deflections of the vertical, height, GPS) are described. The window remove-restore technique (Abd-Elmotaal and Kuehtreiber, 2003) has been used. The available gravity anomalies and the deflections of the vertical have been topographically-isostatically reduced using the Airy isostatic hypothesis. The reduced deflections have been used to interpolate deflections on a relatively dense grid covering the data window. These gridded reduced deflections have been used to compute an astrogeodetic geoid for Austria using least-squares collocation technique within the remove-restore scheme. The Vening Meinesz formula has been used to compute an astrogravimetric geoid for Austria. Another gravimetric geoid for Austria has been determined in the framework of the window remove-restore technique using Stokes integral with modified Stokes kernel. All computed geoids have been validated using GNSS/levelling derived geoid. A wide comparison among the derived geoids computed within the current investigation has been carried out.</p>


1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (23) ◽  
pp. 3431-3434 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Fujimoto ◽  
N. Seama ◽  
J. Lin ◽  
T. Matsumoto ◽  
T. Tanaka ◽  
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1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 942-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Woodside

Detailed maps of free-air, Bouguer, and residual gravity anomalies for a survey area 250 km wide across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between 45° and 46 °N have been compiled. The Bouguer anomaly was terrain-corrected to a radius of 40 km. The residual anomaly was computed from the terrain-corrected Bouguer anomaly using an empirical linear relationship between the Bouguer anomaly and the bathymetry to predict a 'regional' Bouguer anomaly from the depth data. North–south and east–west trends in the gravity data are enhanced in the residual anomaly; and it is suggested that at least one short east–west transform fault may offset the ridge in a right-lateral sense. The offset is presumably a response to a change in sea-floor spreading direction from west–northwest/east–southeast to west/east about 10 m.y. ago. A change in spreading rate may have occurred at the same time. A difference in accretion rate on either side of the ridge axis is indicated by asymmetry in the gravity data and by differences in the topographic compensation across the axis. Variations in the relationship of terrain-corrected Bouguer anomaly to bathymetry within the survey area suggest that a density deficiency or buoyant forces in the upper mantle are responsible for the overall elevation of the crestal mountain region but that the topography of the high-fractured plateau may be partially compensated by undulations of the crust–mantle interface.


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