Bansal, Abhey Ram (2007): Power law relation of bathymetry and gravity roughness with age of oceanic crust below Ninety East Ridge

Leg/Site/Hole:
ODP 121
DSDP 22
DSDP 26
DSDP 22 214
DSDP 22 216
DSDP 22 217
DSDP 26 253
ODP 121 756
ODP 121 757
ODP 121 758
Identifier:
2008-073290
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Creator:
Bansal, Abhey Ram
National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
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Identification:
Power law relation of bathymetry and gravity roughness with age of oceanic crust below Ninety East Ridge
2007
In: Dimri, V. P. (editor), Fractals in marine sciences
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, India
36
2
105-109
In this study altimeter gravity and ship track bathymetry data from National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) is explored to investigate the relation between roughness of gravity and bathymetry data to the age of oceanic crust over 90 degrees E Ridge. The gravity and bathymetry profiles are selected over the ridge at places of known ages from Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). The gravity and bathymetry data are gridded at sampling interval of 1' 12" and profiles are extracted on the DSDP and ODP sites. The roughness of gravity and bathymetry data is computed as the square root of the average squared deviation about a linear trend. The roughness varies as a power -1.31 and -1.59 of age for bathymetry and gravity data. The mean fractal dimension is found to be 1.54 and 1.46 for bathymetry and gravity data. The roughness of bathymetry and gravity data varies with age with different power law. It is also interesting to note that the roughness of bathymetry decreased with age, which indicates modification of bathymetry data in the older (northern) portion of the ridge with continuous depositions of Bengal fan sediments.
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Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:10.0000
West:80.0000East: 90.0000
South:-10.0000

Oceanography; Solid-earth geophysics; age; bathymetry; crust; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DSDP Site 214; DSDP Site 216; DSDP Site 217; DSDP Site 253; fractals; gravity field; Indian Ocean; Leg 121; Leg 22; Leg 26; Ninetyeast Ridge; Ocean Drilling Program; ocean floors; oceanic crust; ODP Site 756; ODP Site 757; ODP Site 758; power law; remote sensing; roughness; satellite methods; spatial variations; spectra;

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