Mercury's crustal thickness correlates with lateral variations in mantle melt production: Dataset for maps of surface density, degree of partial melting, and crustal thickness

<p>1) DensityGrid.dat = map of density of pore-free surface rocks (Figure 1a)</p> <p>- Units = g/cm3</p> <p>- 720 x 1440 pixels corresponding to 0.25-degree pixels in an equirectangular cylindrical projection with the equator as central parallel.</p> <p>- The first row represents 90 to 89.75 degrees of latitude north; the last row represents 89.75 to 90 degrees of latitude south.</p> <p>- The first column represents 0 to 0.25 degree of longitude; the last column represents 359.75 to 360 degrees of longitude.</p> <p>2) MeltGrid.dat = map of degree of partial melting (Figure S1a)</p> <p>- Units: mass fraction</p> <p>- 720 x 1440 pixels as described above</p> <p>3) CrustalThickness_ModelU0.dat = map of crustal thickness if laterally uniform density, Model U0 (Figure 2a)</p> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp; CrustalThickness_ModelVn.dat = map of crustal thickness if laterally variable density, Model Vn (Figure 2c, Figures S6 to S10)</p> <p>- Units = km</p> <p>- generated with MakeGridDH of SHTOOLS (<a href="https://shtools.github.io/SHTOOLS/">https://shtools.github.io/SHTOOLS/</a>)</p> <p>- 720 x 1440 coordinate points corresponding to 0.25-degree spacing in an equirectangular cylindrical projection with the equator as central parallel.</p> <p>- The first row corresponds to 90 degrees of latitude north; the last row corresponds to 89.75 degrees of latitude south.</p> <p>- The first column corresponds to 0 degree of longitude; the last column corresponds to 359.75 degrees of longitude.</p> <p>Note: Figures refer to the following paper (Geophysical Research Letters, 2020): `Mercury&#39;s crustal thickness correlates with lateral variations in mantle melt production&rsquo;, by M. Beuthe, B. Charlier, O. Namur, A. Rivoldini, and T. Van Hoolst</p>