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GRAVITY ANOMALY
A local variation in the strength of the Earth’s gravity field that can be attributed to variations in the density of buried materials. In geophysical surveying, a Bouguer anomaly is a gravity reading that has been corrected for the predictable effects of altitude and latitude: residual variations in Bouguer anomalies can be interpreted in terms of buried geological or archaeological features.
Swansea University
10.4135/9781446247501.n1756
(2000) Gravity measurement and interpretation of anomalies. In and The Oxford companion to the Earth.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 470–475.
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