Database of the Pacific Ocean Lithosphere Digital Models from Geotraverses

The Geotraverse Project

Within the framework of the joint Russia - Japan Geotraverse Project three deep geological/geophysical cross sections of the lithosphere and asthenosphere in the transition zone from Asian continent to the Pacific Ocean have been constructed. There are the Philippine Sea Geotraverse, the Japan Sea Geotraverse, and the Okhotsk Sea Geotraverse.

Leaders of the joint Russia-Japan Geotraverse Project: Prof. A. G. Rodnikov (Geophysical Center RAS, Russia) and Prof. S. Uyeda (Earthquake Prediction Research Center, Japan).

The Data Base of the Pacific lithosphere digital models for these geotraverses is conctructed in the World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow (Director Dr. N. A. Sergeyeva ) of the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The computer Data Base contains:

Deep geological and geophysical cross-sections of the crust and the upper mantle (geotraverses) of a length of several thousands of kilometers and a depth up to 100 km that show the Earth interior structure beneath seismically hazardous zones, sedimentary basins containing hydrocarbons and mineralization areas.
Bathymetry, geological, gravimetric, geothermal, seismic, magnetometry, and electromagnetic data related to the geotraverses, data of tomography, data on earthquakes and individual data on the chemical composition of rocks and their age, data obtained by deep drilling and dredging.

The Geotraverse Project data sets of these digital databases have recently been released as CD-ROM sets. Contents of CD-ROM is available on address: http://zeus.wdcb.ru/wdcb/sep/traverses/cd_rom.html

This Project was sponsored by Russian Foundation for Basic Research ( RFBR N 98-07-90201) in 1998-1999.

P.S. We are looking for support to continue our work at "The Geotraverse Project" in the direction:

Deep Structure Digital Models of Marginal and Inland Sedimentary Basins.

Please, contact us:
Leader of the Geotraverse Project: Prof. Alexander G. Rodnikov , rodnikov@wdcb.ru
Director of the World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow: Dr. Natalia A. Sergeyeva , nata@wdcb.ru
Geophysisist of the World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow: Dr. Ludmila P. Zabarinskaya , mila@wdcb.ru
Geophysical Center RAS, Molodezhnaya 3, 117296, Moscow, Russia

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Last revision June 15, 2002