Sediment Thickness

Button on Main
Program Toolbar
- Thicknesses range to 18000 m, but only at very specific
locations
- To change color scale
- Right
click on the map
- Pick Elevation colors
- Option 1
- Pick
z
Range
- Set the maximum value to something reasonable (a few km in most cases)
so you can actually see variations
- Option 2, change to a log scale, using
checkbox on the form.
This map does an excellent job showing the differences between
active and passive
continental margins, and the locations of major rivers with huge deltas and
submarine fans.
Data source, citation, and
download.
Last revision 12/31/2018