s - m)/(w - m), in which dw is water depth in meters, ts is sediment thickness in
meters, s is average sediment density (1.90 g/cm3), m is upper mantle density (3.22 g/cm3), and
w is seawater density (1.03 g/cm3).Operations Synopsis | Table of Contents
Figure 37. Basement sections drilled during Leg 192 and at the three previous DSDP and ODP
Ontong Java Plateau basement sites (as in Fig. 36), with water depths corrected for sediment
loading. The corrected basement depth (Dc) is obtained from the equation of Crough (1983): Dc =
dw + ts (s - m)/(w - m), in which dw is water depth in meters, ts is sediment thickness in
meters, s is average sediment density (1.90 g/cm3), m is upper mantle density (3.22 g/cm3), and
w is seawater density (1.03 g/cm3).
