Straume, Eivind Olavson; Gaina, Carmen; Medvedev, S; Hochmuth, Katharina; Gohl, Karsten; Whittaker, Joanne; Abdul Fattah, R; Doornenbal, J C; Hopper, J R (2025): Total sediment thickness of the world's oceans and marginal seas, version 3 (GlobSed) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.982339
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Published: 2025-05-15 • DOI registered: 2025-06-13
Abstract:
NCEI's global ocean sediment thickness grid of Divins (2003) updated by Whittaker et al. (2013) has been updated again for the NE Atlantic, Arctic, Southern Ocean, and Mediterranean regions. The new global 5‐arc‐minute total sediment thickness grid, GlobSed, incorporates new data and several regional oceanic sediment thickness maps, which have been compiled and published for the, (1) NE Atlantic (Funck et al., 2017; Hopper et al., 2014), (2) Mediterranean (Molinari & Morelli, 2011), (3) Arctic (Petrov et al., 2016), (4) Weddell Sea (Huang et al., 2014), and (5) the Ross Sea, Amundsen Sea, and Bellingshausen Sea sectors off West Antarctica (Lindeque et al., 2016; Wobbe et al., 2014). This version also includes updates in the White Sea region based on the VSEGEI map of Orlov and Fedorov (2001). GlobSed covers a larger area than NCEI's previous global grids (Divins, 2003; Whittaker et al. 2013), and the new updates results in a 29.7% increase in estimated total oceanic sediment volume. This dataset has been archived in the framework of the PANGAEA US data rescue initiative 2025.
Supplement to:
Straume, Eivind Olavson; Gaina, Carmen; Medvedev, S; Hochmuth, Katharina; Gohl, Karsten; Whittaker, Joanne; Abdul Fattah, R; Doornenbal, J C; Hopper, J R (2019): GlobSed: Updated Total Sediment Thickness in the World's Oceans. World Data Service for Geophysics: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(4), 1756-1772, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008115
Related to:
Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans and Marginal Seas, Version 1 (2003). https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/sedthick.html, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/total-sediment-thickness-oceans-seas
Funck, Thomas; Geissler, Wolfram H; Kimbell, Geoffrey S.; Gradmann, Sophie; Erlendsson, Ögmundur; McDermott, Kenneth; Petersen, Uni K. (2017): Moho and basement depth in the NE Atlantic Ocean based on seismic refraction data and receiver functions. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 447(1), 207-231, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.1
Hopper, J R; Funck, Thomas; Stoker, Martyn S; Árting, U; Peron-Pinvidic, G; Doornenbal, H; Gaina, Carmen; Contributors, NAG-TEC (2022): Tectonostratigraphic Atlas of the North-East Atlantic Region [dataset]. GEUS Dataverse, https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/ZZQRQ1
Huang, Xiaoxia; Gohl, Karsten; Jokat, Wilfried (2014): Variability in Cenozoic sedimentation and paleo-water depths of the Weddell Sea basin related to pre-glacial and glacial conditions of Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change, 118, 25-41, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.03.010
Lindeque, Ansa; Gohl, Karsten; Wobbe, Florian; Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele (2016): Preglacial to glacial sediment thickness grids for the Southern Pacific Margin of West Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(10), 4276-4285, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GC006401
Molinari, Irene; Morelli, Andrea (2011): EPcrust: a reference crustal model for the European Plate. Geophysical Journal International, 185(1), 352-364, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04940.x
Orlov, V. P.; Fedorov, D. L. (2001): Hypsometric Map of the Crystalline Basement Surface in the Central and Northern East European Platform on a Scale 1: 2500000.
Petrov, Oleg; Morozov, Andrey A; Shokalsky, Sergey; Kashubin, Sergei; Artemieva, Irina M; Sobolev, Nikolai; Petrov, Evgeny; Ernst, Richard E; Sergeev, Sergey; Smelror, Morten (2016): Crustal structure and tectonic model of the Arctic region. Earth-Science Reviews, 154, 29-71, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.11.013
Whittaker, Joanne; Goncharov, Alexey; Williams, Simon E; Müller, Dietmar; Leitchenkov, German L: Global sediment thickness dataset updated for the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/total-sediment-thickness-oceans-seas#version2 (Website decommissioned on May 12, 2025)
Whittaker, Joanne; Goncharov, Alexey; Williams, Simon E; Müller, R Dietmar; Leitchenkov, German L (2013): Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian‐Antarctic Southern Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(8), 3297-3305, https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20181
Wobbe, Florian; Lindeque, Ansa; Gohl, Karsten (2014): Anomalous South Pacific lithosphere dynamics derived from new total sediment thickness estimates off the West Antarctic margin. Global and Planetary Change, 123, 139-149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.09.006
Wobbe, Florian; Lindeque, Ansa; Gohl, Karsten (2014): Total sediment thickness grid of the Southern Pacific Ocean off West Antarctica, links to NetCDF files [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.835589
Source:
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information: Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans and Marginal Seas
Version 3 (GlobSed) html page (zip file), pdf (printed webpage) [webpage]. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/, Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans and Marginal Seas, Latest Version (GlobSed) and Version 2 _ NCEI.htm.zip (Website decommissioned on May 12, 2025Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans and Marginal Seas, Latest Version (GlobSed) and Version 2 _ NCEI.pdf)
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US data rescue initiative 2025 (USDataRescue2025)
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Median Latitude: 0.000000 * Median Longitude: 180.000000 * South-bound Latitude: -90.000000 * West-bound Longitude: 180.000000 * North-bound Latitude: 90.000000 * East-bound Longitude: 180.000000
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Comment:
Original Distributor: Marine Geology & Geophysics, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, mgg.info@noaa.gov
Original publication date of the corresponding manuscript (Straume et al., 2019) on March 1, 2019
Data submission to PANGAEA was initiated by Eivind Olavson Straume in May 2025
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