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Gravity Characteristics on the Eastern Asia by using GRACE Data  

Yu Sang Hoon (Dept. of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Min Kyung Duck (Dept. of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.38, no.3, 2005 , pp. 299-304 More about this Journal
Abstract
Geoid undulation and gravity anomaly were calculated from GRACE satellite data on the eastern Asia including Korean peninsula. Geoid undulation varies from -60m in the China to 60m toward the Pacific Ocean across the Korean Peninsula. Calculated gravity anomalies are in the range of -60 and 60 mgal except the subduction zone showing -100 mgal. High positive values are observed at Mt. Baekdu, Kaema highland and Taebaek mountains, and low values at Ulleung, Japan and Yamato basins in the East sea. We removed regional components below the spherical harmonic degree of 10 from gravity anomaly to get the residual anomaly for crust components. Residual gravity anomaly shows high anomalies at the northern mountainous area and Kyungsang basin in the Korean Peninsula. And low anomalies appears at the western Korea bay basin, Kunsan basin, Cheju basin, and Ulleung basin in the marine. Anomalies separated by the spherical harmonic degree as well as the residual anomalies are useful for the study of large crustal structure about geologic scale and depth distribution and for the survey of natural resources.
Keywords
geoid undulation; gravity anomaly; GRACE; residual anomaly;
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