Geoid lineations of 1000 km wavelength over the central Pacific

Details Geoid lineations of 1000 km wavelength over the central Pacific Geoid lineations of 1000 km wavelength over the central Pacific

Jan 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995georl..22...97c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 22, no. 2, p. 97-100

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Altimetry, Geoids, Ocean Bottom, Pacific Ocean, Topography, Wavelengths, Altimeters, Anomalies, Ers-1 (Esa Satellite), Poseidon Satellite, Sediments, Topex

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Altimeter profiles of the ERS-1 and Topex-Poseidon satellites have been used to compute a geoid surface from which we have extracted medium-wavelenth geoid anomalies over the central Pacific. In this region, the geoid shows prominent elongated anomalies of 20-40 cm in amplitude, with a spacing of approx. 1000 km and oriented N60 deg W. In the south central Pacific, the Polynesian hotspot swells seem to be located on the linear geoid highs. However, the latter extend much farther eastward, preceeding the active hotspots. To the north, other geoid lines are visible but they do not coincide with known tectonic features. The wavelet transform applied to raw geoid data clearly detects a strong signal at the 1000-1200 km wavelength. The amplitude of the lineations increases with age, by a factor of 3 between 10 and 50 my. Analysis of seafloor topography corrected for age and sediments reveals topography anomalies correlated with the geoid lineations. Admittance and coherence calculations give high coherence (0.9) in the 1000-1200 km waveband and admittance values of 1.5 m/km at 10 my and 3 m/km at 60 my. The mechanism producing the lineations is unclear. Their characteristics however are not incompatible with a convective origin.

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