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Gravity Inversion and Integration

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This chapter describes gravity inversion for various geophysical, geodetic and geodynamic applications. After introducing some basic geophysical concepts and formulas for gravity inversion, various isostatic models and their use in determining crustal depth by gravity is described at length and compared and combined with seismic models of crustal depth. The preferred isostatic model is based on Vening Meinesz-Moritz hypothesis with a global isostatic compensation of Bouguer gravity disturbances rather than Bouguer gravity anomalies. There are also applications of gravity for estimating tectonic stress in the mantle and viscosity in the mantle (based on post-glacial land uplift rate data in Fennoscandia). Temporal changes of the gravity field by many years of monthly repeated data from the satellite mission GRACE are used to demonstrate their power in determining large-scale Earth mass and geoid changes, such as positive geoid height rates in Laurentia and Fennoscandia related to glacial isostatic adjustments, and negative rates in Greenland and West Antarctica, as a result of mass losses due to ice-sheet melting. Also, the upper mantle viscosity in Fennoscandia is determined by these data.

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