Gravity imaging highlights structures beneath the seafloor sediments because variations in mass (as in hills and valleys) cause variations in the gravity field above them. In this image, buried fracture zones can be clearly traced where thick sediments make them invisible in the surface topography.
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Year: 2008
Details: Gravity
Media Type: Map
Data Type: Bathymetry
Device Type: Sonar:Multibeam
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Investigator: MGDS
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