Deglacial land emergence and lateral upper-mantle heterogeneity in the Svalbard Archipelago-II. Extended results for high-resolution load models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 125-140

  Kaufmann, Georg ^a   Wolf, Detlef ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barents Sea ice sheet; Glacial rebound; Lateral heterogeneity; Mantle viscosity; Maxwell viscoelasticity; Svalbard Archipelago

Indexed keywords

BARENTS-2; ICE SHEET; LOAD MODEL; MANTLE STRUCTURE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND;

BARENTS SEA;

EID: 0030514472     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb01539.x     Document Type: Article

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