A revised relaxation-time spectrum for Fennoscandia

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-86

  Wieczerkowski, Karin ^a,c   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^b   Wolf, Detlef ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mantle viscosity; Postglacial uplift; Relaxation spectrum; Strandlines

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; UPLIFT; VISCOSITY;

FINLAND; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0033371656     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00924.x     Document Type: Article

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