Introduction Valles Marineris is one of the most prominent tectonic structures on Mars. It is approximately 4000 km long [1] and up to 11 km deep [2]. Valles Marineris is oriented radial to the Tharsis volcanic province and formed primarily by normal faulting in an extensional rifting environment [3]. Detailed geologic mapping indicates that it formed primarily during the Early Hesperian [4], c...

M than 60% of the Earth’s land and shallow marine areas are covered by > 2 km of sediments and sedimentary rocks, with the thickest accumulations on rifted continental margins (Figure 1). Free-air marine gravity anomalies derived from Geosat and ERS-1 satellite altimetry (Fairhead et al., 2001; Sandwell and Smith, 2009; Andersen et al., 2009) outline most of these major basins with remarkable p...

This paper exploits a new observational atlas for the near-global ocean for the best-observed 3-yr period from December 2003 through November 2006. The atlas consists of mapped observations and derived quantities. Together they form a full representation of the ocean state and its seasonal cycle. The mapped observations are primarily altimeter data, satellite SST, and Argo profiles. GCM interpo...

in this paper the inversion of gravity data using l1–norm stabilizer is considered. the inversion is an important step in the interpretation of data. in gravity data inversion, the goal is to estimate density and geometry of the unknown subsurface model from a set of known observation measured on the surface. commonly, rectangular prisms are used to model the subsurface under the survey area. t...