Re: Spherical Bouguer correction

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:50:26 +0100
Lester Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quick question (off topic), but should one strictly be using the
> simple spherical correction (4piG(rho)H) as opposed to the "infinite"
> slab (2piG(rho)H) for the Bouguer calculation?
> 
> Trying to think at what point this would become a significant
> consideration in terms of a geographic area?

Lester,

I'm not really a gravity expert, but aren't you getting into the sphere
of terrain corrections here? After all, the classic terrain correction
deals with exactly this shortcoming of the Bouguer correction.

Les

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