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Global and African Lithospheric Architecture

Global and African Lithospheric Architecture
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Global sediment thickness (Laske & Masters, 2013) Global oceanic sediment thickness (Straume et al, 2019) Combined sediment thickness (Africa) Crustal thickness (Globig et al, 2016) Lithosphere thickness (Globig et al, 2016)
5 map layers referenced
Values differ across layers
Global sediment thickness (Laske & Masters, 2013)

Laske, G., Masters, G., Ma, Z., & Pasyanos, M. (2013). Update on CRUST1.0 - A 1-degree global model of Earth's crust. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 15, EGU2013-2658. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013EGUGA..15.2658L/abstract

Global oceanic sediment thickness (Straume et al, 2019)

Straume, E. O., Gaina, C., Medvedev, S., Hochmuth, K., Gohl, K., Whittaker, J. M., et al. (2019). GlobSed: Updated total sediment thickness in the world's oceans. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 1756–1772. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008115

Crustal thickness (Globig et al, 2016) Lithosphere thickness (Globig et al, 2016)

Globig, J., M.Fernàndez, M.Torne, J.Vergés, A.Robert, and C.Faccenna (2016), New insights into the crust and lithospheric mantle structure of Africa from elevation, geoid, and thermal analysis, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 5389–5424, doi:10.1002/2016JB012972.

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Values differ across layers
Global sediment thickness (Laske & Masters, 2013)
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Global oceanic sediment thickness (Straume et al, 2019)
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Combined sediment thickness (Africa)
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Crustal thickness (Globig et al, 2016)
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Lithosphere thickness (Globig et al, 2016)
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Jan van Wees <Jan_Diederik.vanWees@tno.nl>