Mantle viscosity from the simultaneous inversion of multiple data sets pertaining to postglacial rebound

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 503-506

  Peltier, W R ^a   Jiang, Xianhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL ISOSTACY; MANTLE VISCOSITY; PLEISTOCENE (LATE); POSTGLACIAL; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL;

CANADA;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INFERENCE ENGINES; RELAXATION TIME; SEA LEVEL; VISCOSITY;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MULTIPLE DATA SETS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; ROTATIONAL RESPONSE; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 0030482627     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00512     Document Type: Article

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