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Physical properties of marine sediments
John E. Nafe,Charles L. Drake +1 more
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In this paper, it was shown that seafloor sediments that blanket the ocean floor are of widely varying thickness but seismic observations indicate that 200 to 400 meters in the Pacific and one kilometer in the Atlantic are fairly typical values for deep water.Abstract:
: The unconsolidated sediments that blanket the ocean floor are of widely varying thickness but seismic observations indicate that 200 to 400 meters in the Pacific and one kilometer in the Atlantic are fairly typical values for deep water. At present direct observation of these sediments is limited to such samples as may be recovered by dredging or coring operations, for drilling has been carried out only in the shallow waters of the coastal shelves. Knowledge of the physical properties of the great bulk of the sediments deeper than the few tens of feet reached by coring equipment is thus necessarily derived from geophysical observations.read more
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Crustal structure and rift architecture across the Krishna–Godavari basin in the central Eastern Continental Margin of India based on analysis of gravity and seismic data
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Thin oceanic crust below Bay of Bengal inferred from 3-D gravity interpretation
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A heat production model for stable continental crust
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Experimental estimation of velocities and anisotropy of a series of Swedish crystalline rocks and ores
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