Contribution of glacial-isostatic adjustment to the geocenter motion

Tectonophysics

Volumn 511, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 99-108

  Klemann, Volker ^a   Martinec, Zdeněk ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Geocenter motion; Glacial isostatic adjustment; Mantle viscosity; Static fluid core approximation

Indexed keywords

CENTER-OF-MASS; EARTH MODELS; EARTH'S INTERIOR; GEOCENTER MOTION; GLACIAL-ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLACIATION HISTORY; MANTLE VISCOSITY; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER VARIATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECULAR TREND; SOLID EARTH; STATIC FLUID-CORE APPROXIMATION; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; SURFACE MASS; WATER CYCLE;

VISCOSITY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; CORE (PLANETARY); DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GLACIATION; GLACIOISOSTASY; GRAVITY FIELD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER MANTLE; MODELING; PLEISTOCENE; POTENTIAL FIELD; SOLID EARTH; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 82655177562     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.031     Document Type: Article

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