Crustal isostasy indicates anomalous densities beneath Iceland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1215-1218

  Menke, William ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; THERMAL EXPANSION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

ANOMALOUS DENSITIES; COMBINED EFFECT; CONSTANT THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DENSITY JUMPS; RATE OF INCREASE; UPPER CRUST; WIDE ANGLE; CRUSTAL ISOSTASY; ICELAND;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

CRUST; DENSITY; DEPTH DETERMINATION; ISOSTASY; MOHO;

ICELAND;

EID: 0033134290     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900202     Document Type: Article

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