The World Stress Map (WSM) is the global compilation of information on the present-day stress field in the Earth's crust. The current WSM database release 2025 (Heidbach et al., 2025) has 100,842 data records, but the data are unevenly distributed and clustered. To analyse the wavelength of the crustal stress pattern of the orientation of maximum horizontal stress SHmax, we use so-called smoothed stress maps that show the mean SHmax orientation on regular grids. The mean SHmax orientation is estimated using the 77,365 A-C data records from the WSM database release 2025 in the Matlab® script stress2grid v.1.1 (Ziegler and Heidbach, 2019) which is based on the circular statistics of axial data. We use a search radius around the grid point and compute the mean SHmax orientation if at least five data records are within the search radius. The significance of the results is further improved by the weighting of the input data by three different parameters. 1.) Data quality weighting with wQ=1/15 for A-, wQ=1/20 for B-, and wQ = 1/25 for C-quality data. 2.) Inverse distance weighting relative to the grid point. This is based on the assumption that the closer a data record is to a grid point, the more strongly the stress state at the grid point influences that data record. Consequently, the contribution of an individual data record to the SHmax orientation increases with decreasing distance to the grid point. 3.) Minimum distance threshold: Data records located very close to a grid point would be overrepresented by the distance weight. To avoid this, a minimum distance threshold is applied such that all data records within 10% of the search radius are assigned the same weighting coefficient. Using a fixed search radius effectively filters from the SHmax data records the wavelength defined by the chosen search radius and does not resolve rotations of SHmax at smaller spatial scales. We provide 13 global datasets for SHmax calculated with search radii of 500 km, 250km, 100km, and 50 km. For the 500 km and 250 km search all four grids are used on 2°, 1°, 0.5°, and 0.2°. For the 100 km search radius the 1°, 0.5°, and 0.2° grids are used and for the 50 km search radius only the 0.5° and 0.2° grids are applied. Details on the format of the data files with the mean SHmax orientation are provided in the accompanying Readme file. Further details on the WSM database release 2025 are available in the WSM Technical Report 25-01 (Rajabi et al., 2025).
Bindige Deckschichten mit geringer hydraulischer Durchlaessigkeit gewaehrleisten den Schutz oberflaechennaher Grundwasserleiter vor Kontaminationen. Das Hauptkriterium fuer diese Schutzwirkung ist der Tongehalt, der einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die hydraulische Leitfaehigkeit hat. Es sollen Verfahren entwickelt werden, die eine schnelle Kartierung des Tongehaltes mit geophysikalischen Verfahren ermoeglichen. Als Verfahren kommen dabei geoelektrische und elektromagnetische Methoden in Betracht. Bestehende Theorien ueber den Einfluss des Tongehaltes auf die elektrische Leitfaehigkeit werden in Bezug auf ihre Verwendbarkeit in der Praxis umgearbeitet. Feldarbeiten hierzu werden an ausgewaehlten Lokationen in Schleswig-Holstein und Ungarn durchgefuehrt.
GFZ Data Services is a repository for research data and scientific software across the Earth System Sciences, hosted at GFZ. The curated data are archived, persistently accessible and published with digital object identifier (DOI). They range from large dynamic datasets from global monitoring networks with real-time aquisition, to international services in geodesy and geophysics, to the full suite of small and highly heterogeneous datasets collected by individual researchers or small teams ("long-tail data"). In addition to the DOI registration and data archiving itself, GFZ Data Services team offers comprehensive consultation by domain scientists and IT specialists. Among others, GFZ Data Services is data publisher for the IAG Services ICGEM, IGETS and ISG (IAG = Int. Association for Geodesy; ICGEM = Int. Center for Global Earth Models; IGETS = Int. Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service; ISG = Int. Service for the Geoid), the World Stress Map, INTERMAGNET, GEOFON, the Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam GIPP, TERENO, EnMAP Flight Campaigns, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK, the Specialised Information Service for Solid Earth Geosciences (FID GEO) and hosts the GFZ Catalogue for the International Generic Sample Number IGSN.
Der Dienst stellt die Gebiete geophysikalischer Untersuchungen, unterteilt in die einzelnen Messverfahren Geoelektrik, Geomagnetik, Gravimetrie, Seismik sowie die Stationen der Erdbebenüberwachung dar. Die Informationen zu den geophysikalischen Untersuchungen beinhalten Angaben zum Gebiet, Zeitraum der Messungen, Ergebnisberichte und Bezeichnungen der Ablage im Fachinformationssystem Geophysik. Die seismologischen Überwachungsstationen in Sachsen-Anhalt enthalten Informationen zu Namensraum und Identifikation, Plattform- und Stationstyp, den Rang der Station in überregionalen Messnetzen und Links auf Aufzeichnungsergebnisse und Dokumentationsseiten zum Verbundsystem. Messdaten sind nicht Bestandteil dieser Datensätze.
HALO-DB is the web platform of a data retrieval and long-term archive system. The system was established to hold and to manage a wide range of data based on observations of the HALO research aircraft and data which are related to HALO observations. HALO (High-Altitude and LOng-range aircraft) is the new German research aircraft (German Science Community (DFG)). The aircraft, a Gulfstream GV-550 Business-Jet, is strongly modified for the application as a research platform. HALO offers several advantages for scientific campaigns, such as its high range of more than 10000 km, a high maximum altitude of more than 15 km, as well as a relatively high payload.
The research cruise PANORAMA-1 onboard the Italian vessel OGS Explora was carried out within 2 legs in the period August, 16th – September 17th 2013. The designated survey area was located in a sector of the European Arctic north of Svalbard covering an area north of 80°N between 15°E and 35°E. Main objectives were to acquire new geophysical data and extract near surface sediment samples in an underexplored area of the European Arctic with special focus on the transition zone from the North Barents shelf towards the oceanic Nansen basin. During leg 1 of the cruise a 20 days geophysical survey 1056 km of multi-channel seismic data was acquired supplemented by a 221 km long sonobuoy profile. Additionally, magnetic and sediment echosounding data was acquired along these profiles. During all operations within the survey area gravity and multibeam echosounding data was continuously acquired. After a 1 day stopover in Longyearbyen in order to exchange part of the scientific crew OGS Explora returned to the survey area to continue survey operations during leg 2. Within these 10 days period near surface sediments were extracted by means of a gravity corer at 12 locations and heat flow soundings were conducted at 7 locations. Gravity, sediment and multibeam echosounding data was continuously acquired along all transit lines within the survey area during leg 2. Total line length of magnetic data was 2658.7 km. Over all track lines with bathymetric and gravity data amount to 5665.8 km in total.
The previous BGR-cruises with RV AURELIA in 2003 and 2004 were designed to collect a grid of seismic MCS-data which should enable us to get a high-resolution overview over the upper 1 s TWT of the sediments of the German North Sea sector. The data format is Society of Exploration Geophysicists SEG Y. Together with the previously acquired data these new data should help to extend our knowledge of the Late Tertiary and Quaternary evolution of the German North Sea Sector. For the current measurements under the scope of the DFG-funded project RE2424/1-1 ‚Nordsee’ the research vessel RV HEINCKE was made available by the ‘Senatskommission für Ozeanographie’ of the DFG. During the cruise a total ca. 1400 km of high quality MCS lines were surveyed and simultaneously measured by a sediment echosounder system that enabled additional profiles during transits with speeds > 5 kn. The BGR high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection system consisting of a GI-Gun (0.8 l) and a 300 m streamer with 24 channels and a sediment echosounder type SES 2000 standard by Innomar, Rostock. While the BGR-seismic system was used to observe the shallow subsurface down to 2 s TWT penetration depth, the sediment echosounder with a penetration depth of several meters was primarily intended to identify sampling positions for the deployment of the BGR vibration corer during the succeeding Leg 2. Additionally, the echosounder system enables the relationship to the highest-resolution multichannel seismic measurements of the group of the University of Bremen on FK SENCKENBERG. All seismic records were processed onboard for the quality control and for a first interpretation.
Die Datenebene enthält Informationen zu Messgebieten, Profillinien und Messkampagnen geophysikalischer Untersuchungen entsprechend der Fachbereiche getrennt für Geoelektrik, Gravimetrie, Geomagnetik und Seismik. Geoelektrik: Übersicht über lokale Messgebiete, die von verschiedenen Firmen bearbeitet, sowie Untersuchungen, die vom LAGB beauftragt oder selbst durchgeführt wurden. Vor 1990 betreffen die von Firmen durchgeführten Untersuchungen zumeist Messungen des VEB Geophysik Leipzig, nach 1990 Messungen verschiedener Ingenieurbüros, die nach Lagerstättengesetz/Geologiedatengesetz an das LAGB gemeldet wurden. Seismik: Die Profilanlage seismischer Messungen ist unterteilt in 2D-reflexionsseismische Messungen zur Erkundung geologischer Strukturen und der Rohstoffexploration in bis ca. 5 km Tiefe sowie die Messungen der Refraktionsseismik und Weitwinkelreflexionsseismik, welche den Aufbau der Erdkruste in bis zu 40 km Tiefe untersuchen. Die tiefenseismischen Profile werden weiterhin durch die eingesetzten Messmethoden unterschieden. Untersuchungsgebiete reflexionsseismischer 3D-Messungen markieren Gebiete der detaillierten Exploration von mit Hilfe mehrerer Quellen gleichzeitig angeregter seismischer Signale, welche an flächenhaft ausgebrachten Geophonen registriert werden. Gravimetrie und Geomagnetik: Aufgeführt sind die Messgebietsumrisse und Informationen der Regionalmessungen in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Within the frame of the comprehensive SPOC project (Subduction Processes off Chile) the SONNE cruises SO161 Leg 2 and 3 have been conducted between October 16th and November 29th, 2001, off central Chile between 28° and 44° S. In that period some 5,300 km were surveyed with multichannel seismic (MCS) reflection, magnetic, gravity, high-resolution bathymetric and echographic methods. In addition, approximately 3,900 km were surveyed with the same spectrum of methods but without MCS. The total number of 2D profiles was 48. Target was the variation of the subduction properties between the convergent oceanic Nazca and continental Southamerica plates and the different conditions that might influence the subduction process as there are: (1) age of the oceanic crust, (2) its structure and composition, (3) its sedimentary cover, (4) its thermal state, (5) the subduction angle and obliquity, and (6) the terrigenous sediment afflux from the continent. Furthermore, special focus was given to the subduction front, the subduction interface, the structure of the slope as well as to the forearc basin structure and history, and the general distribution of gas hydrate indicating bottom simulating reflectors (BSR's). The results are to be compared with previous studies of the Chilean active margin, e.g. CONDOR (SO 101 and 103) and CINCA (SO 104). The SPOC target area was subdivided into three sub-areas A,B and C. One area was chosen for a detailed survey by aid of a narrowly spaced grid and for a close link with a lot of partners. This area is characterized by a distinctly different margin type south of it is assumed. Moreover, the subducting portion of the aseismic Juan Fernandez Ridge is located in that area representing another important target of the survey. Advantageous conditions enabled the survey of an east-west profile south of Chiloé Island, providing a section through the submerged coastal Cordillera into the flooded longitudinal valley. Some results of Leg 2 and 3 are: In all areas A, B and C no subduction bulge (outer high) in the oceanic crust was visible perhaps due to the shortness of the profiles. The sedimentary cover of the oceanic crust is exceptionally thin, and the crustal thickness is generally quite "normal" with around 7 km derived from relatively weak Moho reflections. In area B a so far magnetically unmapped region was filled providing reliable ages of the oceanic crust, and suggesting that the Challenger Fracture Zone abruptly terminates west of the area of investigation. The survey in area C yielded valuable information on the trench morphology. The so far unique MCS profile south of Chiloé island shows a very wide trench and allows to extrapolate the general conditions encountered an area A southward to approximately 44° S. It can be stated that the situation is in sharp contrast to the basin structures detected by industry profiles further north in the Golfo de Corcovado.
The dataset includes the locations of OBS stations (Ocean Bottom Seismometers) operated in the German Bight during cruise MSM100 with R.V. Maria S. Merian. The time interval from 13.05.2021 to 15.05.2021 has been analysed in a phase without airgun operation for passive recording with 4.5 Hz geophones. Furthermore, the dataset contains locations of 3 broadband OBS systems which were operated during an experiment at the Darss ramp in the German Baltic Sea. The records were analysed in the time interval 23.01.2018 to 01.04.2018.
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