Sediment  Thickness

• Button on Main Program Toolbar
• Thicknesses range to 18000 m
• To change the 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)
  • Option 2, change to a log scale, using checkbox on the form.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/index.html  has a grid in Geotiff and other less useful formats.

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.

How to Cite:

• Whittaker, Joanne, Alexey Goncharov, Simon Williams, R. Dietmar Müller, German Leitchenkov (2013) Global sediment thickness dataset updated for the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20181.
• Divins, D.L., Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans & Marginal Seas, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO, 2003.

Last revision 9/19/2014