A comprehensive lithospheric study of Black Sea using thermal modeling and simultaneous joint 3D inversion of potential field data

We present a comprehensive lithospheric model of the Black Sea comprised of thermal structure, sediment thickness, and depths to Moho and lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB). The crustal structure (depths to Moho boundary and basement) is first estimated via a simultaneous joint 3D nonlinear inversion of satellite gravity data and the Gzz component of gravity gradiometry tensors. The results are then used for detailed 2D iterative forward...