Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Isopach



Isopach maps such as this one of the Michigan Basin are used to measure an areas thickness of the layers in the earth. This particular map of the Michigan Basin is showing us the levels of thickness of the Silurian Evaporite Basins in the Great Lakes region. They use these maps to measure the thicknesses all over of the sediment below Earth’s surfaces.

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