. The Earth beneath the sea : History . -500 -€00 100 -ax> Fig. 28. Structure section across Puerto Rico Trench computed to fit the seismic and gravity data. (After Talwani, Sutton and Worzel, 1959.) and in the nearby regions. More recently, gravity measurements have been made as a part of the International Geophysical Year cooperation between the Lamont Geological Observatory and the Bureau of Mineral Resources of Australia. Fig. 30 shows the section deduced by Raitt and the computed gravity anomalies for this section, using the Nafe-Drake density curve, compared with the observed anomalie
. The Earth beneath the sea : History . -500 -€00 100 -ax> Fig. 28. Structure section across Puerto Rico Trench computed to fit the seismic and gravity data. (After Talwani, Sutton and Worzel, 1959.) and in the nearby regions. More recently, gravity measurements have been made as a part of the International Geophysical Year cooperation between the Lamont Geological Observatory and the Bureau of Mineral Resources of Australia. Fig. 30 shows the section deduced by Raitt and the computed gravity anomalies for this section, using the Nafe-Drake density curve, compared with the observed anomalies (Talwani, Worzel and Ewing, 1901). The comf)uted anomaly curve falls at least 100 mgal below the observed points in the region
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