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Paleo surface topography

Earth’s reconstructed global surface topography from the beginning of the Cenozoic era (66 Million years ago) until today.

Still images of the Earth’s global surface topography reconstructed through the Cenozoic time (66 – 0 Ma). Shown is the Straume et al. (2020) paleogeography model. The Scientific colour map ‘bukavu‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Fabio Crameri
This version: 22.10.2021
License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri adjusted from Straume et al. (2020) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: Straume, E. O., Gaina, C., Medvedev, S., & Nisancioglu, K. H. (2020). Global Cenozoic Paleobathymetry with a focus on the Northern Hemisphere Oceanic Gateways. Gondwana Research, 86, 126-143. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.05.011

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Paleo surface topography (animated)

Animations of the Earth’s global surface topography reconstructed through the Cenozoic time (66 – 0 Ma).

Animations of the Earth’s global surface topography reconstructed through the Cenozoic time (66 – 0 Ma). Shown is the Straume et al. (2020) paleogeography model. The Scientific colour map ‘bukavu‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Fabio Crameri
This version: 22.10.2021
License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri adjusted from Straume et al. (2020) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: Straume, E. O., Gaina, C., Medvedev, S., & Nisancioglu, K. H. (2020). Global Cenozoic Paleobathymetry with a focus on the Northern Hemisphere Oceanic Gateways. Gondwana Research, 86, 126-143. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.05.011

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Paleo surface topography (globe animation)

Animation of the Earth’s surface topography through the Cenozoic time (66 – 0 Ma) on the globe.

Animation of the Earth’s surface topography through the Cenozoic time (66–0 Ma) on the globe. Shown is the Straume et al. (2020) paleogeography model. The Scientific colour map ‘oleron‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Eivind O. Straume
This version: 28.09.2021
License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind Straume based on Straume et al. (2020) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: Straume, E. O., Gaina, C., Medvedev, S., & Nisancioglu, K. H. (2020). Global Cenozoic Paleobathymetry with a focus on the Northern Hemisphere Oceanic Gateways. Gondwana Research, 86, 126-143. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.05.011

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Earth topography (globe animation)

Animations of the Earth’s surface topography on the globe.

Animations of the Earth’s surface topography on the globe. Shown is GEBCO2019 (www.gebco.net) global relief model of Earth’s surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry. The Scientific colour map ‘oleron‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Eivind O. Straume
This version: 28.09.2021
License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind Straume is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
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Mercury topography (globe animation)

Globe animations of surface topography of the planet Mercury.

Globe animations of surface topography of the planet Mercury showing data (MESS-H-MDIS-5-DEM-ELEVATION-V1.0) derived from Messenger missions. The Scientific colour map ‘batlow‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Eivind O. Straume
This version: 28.09.2021
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Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind Straume is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
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Venus topography (globe animation)

Animations of Venusian surface topography on the globe.

Animations of Venusian surface topography on the globe. Shown is the Venus Magellan Global Topography 4641m (v2) representing the version 2 (1997 release) of the Global Topographic Data Record (GTDR-SINUS.3;2) available from https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Venus/Magellan/RadarProperties/. The Scientific colour map ‘bilbao‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Eivind O. Straume
This version: 28.09.2021
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Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind Straume is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
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Mars topography (globe animation)

Animated Martian surface topography on the globe.

Martian surface topography globe animation. Shown is the digital elevation model (available from https://astrogeology.usgs.gov) based on Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter data (MOLA; Smith et al. 1999) obtained on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft (Albee et al. 2001). The Scientific colour map ‘lajolla‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Eivind O. Straume
This version: 28.09.2021
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Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind Straume is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
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Surface topography (relief)

Global maps of the Earth’s surface topography showing the bedrock elevation across oceans, land, and ice sheets.

Global maps of the Earth’s surface topography showing the bedrock elevation across oceans, land, and ice sheets. Shown is ETOPO1 (Amante and Eakins 2009), a 1 arc-minute global relief model of Earth’s surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry. The Scientific colour map ‘bukavu‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Fabio Crameri
This version: 01.09.2021
License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri adjusted from Crameri et al. (2020) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
Related reference: Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and P.J. Heron (2020), The misuse of colour in science communication, Nature Communications, 11, 5444. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7

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Moon topography

Global map of Moon topography. This digital elevation model (DEM) is based on data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA).

Global map of the topography of the Moon. This digital elevation model (DEM) for the Lunar surface is based on data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA; Smith et al., 2010), an instrument on the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft (Tooley et al., 2010). The created DEM represents more than 6.5 billion measurements of Moon topography gathered between July 2009 and July 2013. The Scientific colour map ‘turku‘ is used to represent the data accurately and to all readers.

Creator: Fabio Crameri
This version: 02.09.2021
License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri adjusted from Crameri et al. (2020) is available via the open-access s-ink.org repository.
Related reference: Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and P.J. Heron (2020), The misuse of colour in science communication, Nature Communications, 11, 5444. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7

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