Some analytical solutions for the viscoelastic gravitational relaxation of a two-layer non-self-gravitating incompressible spherical earth

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 413-436

  Wu, Patrick ^a   Ni, Zhihong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glacial rebound; Normal modes; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL REBOUND; ISOSTASY; NORMAL MODE; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0030448135     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb05300.x     Document Type: Article

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