Ice age True Polar Wander in a compressible and non-hydrostatic Earth

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1248-1264

  Cambiotti, Gabriele ^a   Ricard, Yanick ^b   Sabadini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Earth rotation variations; Rheology: mantle

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE MODELS; CONTOUR INTEGRATION; EARTH ROTATION VARIATIONS; EARTH'S ROTATION; ELASTIC LITHOSPHERE; ICE AGE; INITIAL POSITION; LAPLACE DOMAINS; LITHOSPHERIC RHEOLOGY; LONG TERM; LONG TERM BEHAVIOURS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; NEW-ICE; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PENDULUM MOTION; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES; TRUE POLAR WANDER; VISCOELASTIC RHEOLOGY;

ELASTICITY; FORECASTING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON EQUATION; RHEOLOGY; ROTATION; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

ICE;

EARTH ROTATION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR WANDERING; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77958552478     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04791.x     Document Type: Article

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