Effects of water load on geophysical signals due to glacial rebound and implications for mantle viscosity

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1121-1135

  Okuno, Jun'ichi ^a   Nakada, Masao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0012217122     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352408     Document Type: Article

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