Flexure modelling at seamounts with dense cores

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 583-598

  Kim, Seung Sep ^a   Wessel, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Geopotential theory; Lithospheric flexure; Mechanics, theory, and modelling

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL BUOYANCY; AGE CURVE; AGE DATING; ANALYTIC SOLUTION; AXISYMMETRIC; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DENSE CORE; DENSITY MODELS; ELASTIC PLATE; FLEXURAL DEFLECTION; GEOPOTENTIALS; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE; LOAD DENSITY; MASS DISTRIBUTION; PLATE FLEXURE; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC STUDIES; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TOKELAU SEAMOUNTS; TOTAL MASS; UNDERPLATING; WAVE NUMBER DOMAIN;

MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; GRAVITY ANOMALY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MODELING; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAMOUNT; UNDERPLATING;

HOWLAND ISLAND; TOKELAU;

EID: 77955164042     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04653.x     Document Type: Article

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