Lateral viscosity variations and post-glacial rebound: Effects on present-day VLBI baseline deformations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-16

  Giunchi, C ^a,c,d   Spada, G ^b   Sabadini, R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ICE; MELTING; VISCOSITY; ALGORITHMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS;

BASELINE DEFORMATION; LATERAL VISCOSITY VARIATIONS; POST-GLACIAL REBOUND;

GLACIERS; VISCOSITY;

MANTLE; POST GLACIAL REBOUND; RHEOLOGY; VLBI;

EUROPE;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; FINITE ELEMENT ALGORITHMS; HORIZONTAL DEFORMATION; HORIZONTAL MOTION; POST GLACIAL REBOUND; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; VISCOSITY INCREASE; VISCOSITY VARIATIONS;

EID: 0030804727     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03773     Document Type: Article

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