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Data description paper
| 
19 May 2021
Data description paper |
| 19 May 2021
| 19 May 2021
The first pan-Alpine surface-gravity database, a modern compilation that crosses frontiers
Pavol Zahorec
Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská
cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Juraj Papčo
Department of Theoretical Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil
Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského
11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Roman Pašteka
Department of Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology and Applied Geophysics, Faculty of Natural
Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina,
Ilkoviéčova 6, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
Miroslav Bielik
Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská
cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Department of Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology and Applied Geophysics, Faculty of Natural
Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina,
Ilkoviéčova 6, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
Sylvain Bonvalot
Bureau Gravimétrique International, Toulouse, France,
GET, University of Toulouse, France
CNRS, IRD, UT3, CNES, Toulouse, France
Carla Braitenberg
Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Via
Edoardo Weiss 1, 34128 Trieste, Italy
Jörg Ebbing
Institute of Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University Kiel,
Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Gerald Gabriel
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover,
Germany
Institute of Geology, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 30,
30167 Hannover, Germany
Andrej Gosar
Slovenian Environmental Agency, Seismology and Geology Office, Vojkova 1b,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University
of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva
12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Adam Grand
Department of Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology and Applied Geophysics, Faculty of Natural
Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina,
Ilkoviéčova 6, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
Hans-Jürgen Götze
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University Kiel,
Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, 24118 Kiel, Germany
György Hetényi
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, UNIL-Mouline
Géopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Nils Holzrichter
Institute of Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University Kiel,
Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Edi Kissling
Department of Earth Sciences, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Urs Marti
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern, Switzerland
Bruno Meurers
Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, 1090
Vienna, Althanstraße 14, UZA 2, Austria
Jan Mrlina
Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Boční
II/1401, 141 31 Prague, Czech Republic
Ema Nogová
Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská
cesta 9, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Department of Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology and Applied Geophysics, Faculty of Natural
Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina,
Ilkoviéčova 6, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
Alberto Pastorutti
Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Via
Edoardo Weiss 1, 34128 Trieste, Italy
Corinne Salaun
Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, 13 rue du
Chatellier 29200 Brest, France
Matteo Scarponi
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, UNIL-Mouline
Géopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Josef Sebera
Institute of Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University Kiel,
Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Lucia Seoane
Bureau Gravimétrique International, Toulouse, France,
GET, University of Toulouse, France
CNRS, IRD, UT3, CNES, Toulouse, France
Peter Skiba
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover,
Germany
Eszter Szűcs
Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (ELKH EPSS),
Csatkai street 6-8, 9400 Sopron, Hungary
Matej Varga
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH), Stefano-Franscini-Platz
5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Short summary
The gravity field of the Earth expresses the overall effect of the distribution of different rocks at depth with their distinguishing densities. Our work is the first to present the high-resolution gravity map of the entire Alpine orogen, for which high-quality land and sea data were reprocessed with the exact same calculation procedures. The results reflect the local and regional structure of the Alpine lithosphere in great detail. The database is hereby openly shared to serve further research.
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