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Updated gravity stations and anomaly compilation over Lake Superior

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2017-07-01

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Anderson, E.D., and Grauch, V.J.S., 2018, Updated aeromagnetic and gravity anomaly compilations and elevation-bathymetry models over Lake Superior: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7F18X8S.

Summary

New gravity compilation has been compiled for the Lake Superior region. The gravity compilation includes survey stations available from Natural Resources Canada, National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly National Geophysical Data Center), Minnesota Geological Survey, and U.S. Geological Survey. Individual databases were combined and duplicates were removed resulting in a database of 63,880 gravity stations. The gravity station data were reprocessed from observed gravity to simple Bouguer anomaly following standard methods that depend on the station type (for example, land, lake surface, or lake bottom observation) and used a reduction density of 2,670 kg/m3. The compilation provides a consistent dataset appropriate for [...]

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Point of Contact :
Southwest Region
Originator :
Eric D Anderson, V. J. S Grauch
Metadata Contact :
Eric D Anderson
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals
SDC Data Owner :
Mineral Resources Program

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BouguerAnomaly.png
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LakeSupRegBouguer.gxf
“Bouguer anomaly surface”
3.88 MB application/gxf
LakeSupRegBouguer.tif
“Bouguer anomaly surface”
1.65 MB image/geotiff
LakeSupRegBouguer.tfw
“Tiff world file”
95 Bytes text/plain
LakeSupRegGravity.csv
“Gravity stations”
5.88 MB text/csv

Purpose

The purpose is to provide to the public a compilation of gravity station observation from multiple sources that have been processed using consistent data reduction parameters. Additional gravity stations within and adjacent to these data may be similarly processed for more defined gravity anomalies. In addition, these data are providing a continuous set of observations for geologic interpretations spanning the international border and are helping constrain on-going 3D geologic modeling of the North American Midcontinent Rift System (for example, Van Schmus and Hinze, 1985) and associated mineral systems.
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