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Topography, sediment <strong>and</strong><br />

basement<br />

Observed (dots) <strong>and</strong><br />

predicted (line) gravity<br />

anomaly<br />

Lithospheric cross-section<br />

with shear velocities <strong>and</strong><br />

densities<br />

basement<br />

sediment<br />

Figure 2: Topography, gravity signature, <strong>and</strong> lithospheric structure along the Arabian<br />

Peninsula. a Topography along the profile plotted with a 32x vertical exaggeration (V.E.).<br />

The sediment thickness is shown by the grey shaded areas. b Comparison of the observed<br />

gravity data from the GRACE satellites (black dots) <strong>and</strong> the calculated gravity (grey line)<br />

resulting from the structural model shown in c. The S-wave velocities (Vs) in km/s <strong>and</strong><br />

densities (�) in g/cm3 of each layer are listed (Hansen et al.,2008).<br />

References<br />

Al-Amri, A. M. (1999). The crustal <strong>and</strong> upper mantle structure of the Interior Arabian<br />

Platform. Geophysical J. <strong>International</strong>, V. 136, pp. 421 - 430.<br />

Hansen, S., Gaherty, J., Schwartz, S., Rodgers, A., <strong>and</strong> Al-Amri, A. (2008). Seismic Velocity<br />

Structure <strong>and</strong> Depth-dependence of Anisotropy in the Red Sea <strong>and</strong> Arabian Shield<br />

from Surface Wave Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol., 113 Doi :<br />

10.1029/2007JB005335.<br />

Park Y., Nyblade, A., Rodgers, A., <strong>and</strong> Al-Amri, A. (2007). Upper mantle structure beneath<br />

the Arabian Peninsula <strong>and</strong> Northern Red Sea from teleseismic body wave tomography:<br />

Implications for the origin of Cenozoic uplift <strong>and</strong> volcanism in the Arabian Shield.<br />

Geochem. Geophy. Geosys., 8, doi : 10.1029 / 2006 GC 001566.<br />

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