Shallow upper mantle rheology and secular ice sheet fluctuations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 511, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 89-98

  Spada, G ^a   Colleoni, F ^b   Ruggieri, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Generalized Maxwell rheology; Glacial isostasy; Glaciers and ice sheets

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY; ELASTIC RESPONSE; ELASTIC SOLUTIONS; GLACIAL ISOSTASY; GRAVITY FIELD; HIGH HARMONICS; ICE SHEET; LAPLACE INVERSIONS; LOAD DEFORMATION; LOW VISCOSITY ZONE; RHEOLOGICAL EFFECT; RHEOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; STEADY STATE; SURFACE LOADS; SURFACE MOVEMENT; TIME HISTORY; TIME-SCALES; UPPER MANTLE; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELASTICITY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SEA LEVEL; TIME MEASUREMENT;

RHEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GEOMETRY; GLACIOISOSTASY; GRAVITY FIELD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; ICE SHEET; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; RHEOLOGY; SECULAR VARIATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 82655166431     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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