Reappraisal of the Ångerman River decay time estimate and its application to determine uncertainty in Earth viscosity structure

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 811-822

  Nordman, Maaria ^a,b   Milne, Glenn ^b   Tarasov, Lev ^c  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Europe; Glaciology; Mechanics, theory, and modelling; Numerical approximations and analysis; Rheology: Crust and lithosphere; Rheology: Mantle

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DECAY (ORGANIC); ICE; SEA LEVEL; VISCOSITY;

EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; EXPONENTIAL CURVES; LAST GLACIAL CYCLES; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; LOWER MANTLE VISCOSITIES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; THREE-LAYER EARTH; VISCOSITY MODELS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84946417812     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv051     Document Type: Article

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