Project ID No: 1160 (576)

RESEARCH OF THE EARTH’S INTERIOR AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELECTRONIC ATLAS OF ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC USING THE TOMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES (BIPOLTOMOGRAPHY)

Deep structures’ models of the Earth’s interior will be required for preliminary understanding of tectonics and planning of the field works during IPY. An informative source of such data has been developed by us using the “gravimetric tomography” technique to reconstruct the interior structure from the core up to the crust. The method is based on using the geoid global geopotential model and includes the following tasks: 1. Calculation of the relationship between a spherical harmonic degree of the geoid topography and depth of the disturbing layer. 2. Determination of the density of anomalous disturbing masses. 3. Creation of tomographic images of dense inhomogeneities for studied regions. 

Executive organization:
Institute of Geological Sciences (IGS) of NASU
55b, O. Gonchar Str. 01054, Kiev-54, Ukraine

Project Leader:
PhD Rudolf Greku
Tel: 38-044-2807188
Fax: 38-044-2169334
Email: satmar@svitonline.com

Other project members and their affiliation:
Viktor Usenko (IGS);
Vitaliy Vernigorov (IGS);
Tatyana Greku (IGS);
Ksenia Bondar (Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University);
Anastasia Oleshenko (Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University);
Natalia Chaika (Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University).

Joining IPY endorsed project:
№ 185 POLAR EARTH OBSERVING NETWORK
Principal Organisation: SCAR
Principal Investigator: Terry Wilson, Ohio State University, USA