Lateral asthenospheric viscosity variations and postglacial rebound: A case study for the Barents Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1963-1966

  Kaufmann, Georg ^a   Wu, Patrick ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAVITATION; VISCOSITY;

ASTHENOSPHERIC VISCOSITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ASTHENOSPHERE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; VISCOSITY;

BARENTS SEA;

BARENTS SEA; EARTH MODELS; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; VISCOSITY VARIATIONS;

EID: 0032100203     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl51505     Document Type: Article

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