Glacial isostatic adjustment model with composite 3-D Earth rheology for Fennoscandia

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-77

  Van Der Wal, Wouter ^a   Barnhoorn, Auke ^b   Stocchi, Paolo ^c,d   Gradmann, Sofie ^e   Wu, Patrick ^f   Drury, Martyn ^g   Vermeersen, Bert ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Creep and deformation; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Kinematics of crustal and mantle deformation; Rheology: mantle; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

CREEP AND DEFORMATIONS; DYNAMICS OF LITHOSPHERE AND MANTLES; KINEMATICS OF CRUSTAL AND MANTLE DEFORMATIONS; RHEOLOGY: MANTLES; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

CREEP; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OLIVINE; RHEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

ICE;

CREEP; DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIOISOSTASY; GPS; HEAT FLOW; KINEMATICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RHEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMOLOGY; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOSITY;

FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 84879483099     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt099     Document Type: Article

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