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Glacial Isostasy, Sea-Level and Mantle Rheology

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Editors:
  1. R. Sabadini

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Settore di Geofisica, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  2. K. Lambeck

    1. Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  3. E. Boschi

    1. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Roma, Italy

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 334)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Post-Glacial Rebound

    1. Rheology of Mantle and Lithosphere Inferred from Post-Glacial Uplift in Fennoscandia

      • W. Fjeldskaar, L. Cathles
      Pages 1-19

    2. Deep Continental Roots: The Effects of Lateral Variations of Viscosity on Post-Glacial Rebound

      • P. Gasperini, R. Sabadini, D. A. Yuen
      Pages 21-32

    3. A model for Devensian and Flandrian glacial rebound and sea-level change in Scotland

      • Kurt Lambeck
      Pages 33-61

    4. Radial Resolution in the Inference of Mantle Viscosity from Observations of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment

      • J. X. Mitrovica, W. R. Peltier
      Pages 63-78

    5. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sea-Level Change; Evidence for Lateral Mantle Viscosity Structure?

      • M. Nakada, K. Lambeck
      Pages 79-94

    6. The ICE-3G Model of Late Pleistocene Deglaciation: Construction, Verification, and Applications

      • W. R. Peltier
      Pages 95-119

    7. The Dynamical Influences of a Hard Transition Zone on Post-Glacial Uplifts and Rotational Signatures

      • G. Spada, R. Sabadini, D. A. Yuen
      Pages 121-141

  5. Mantle Rheology

    1. Threedimensional Rheology

      • Michele Caputo
      Pages 301-320

    2. Mantle Viscosity: What are We Exactly Looking for?

      • L. A. Lliboutry
      Pages 321-341

    3. The Microphysical Approach to Mantle Rheology

      • G. Ranalli
      Pages 343-378

  6. Mantle and Lithospheric Dynamics

    1. Chemical Boundaries in the Mantle

      • Don L. Anderson
      Pages 379-401
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by K. Lambeck, R. Sabadini and E. B08Chi Viscosity is one of the important material properties of the Earth, controlling tectonic and dynamic processes such as mantle convection, isostasy, and glacial rebound. Yet it remains a poorly resolved parameter and basic questions such as whether the planet's response to loading is linear or non-linear, or what are its depth and lateral variations remain uncertain. Part of the answer to such questions lies in laboratory observations of the rheology of terrestrial materials. But the extrapolation of such measurements from the laboratory environment to the geological environment is a hazardous and vexing undertaking, for neither the time scales nor the strain rates characterizing the geological processes can be reproduced in the laboratory. General rules for this extrapolation are that if deformation is observed in the laboratory at a particular temperature, deformation in geological environments will occur at a much reduced temperature, and thatif at laboratory strain rates a particular deformation mechanism dominates over all others, the relative importance of possible mechanisms may be quite different at the geologically encountered strain rates. Hence experimental results are little more than guidelines as to how the Earth may respond to forces on long time scales. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Settore di Geofisica, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    R. Sabadini

  • Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    K. Lambeck

  • Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Roma, Italy

    E. Boschi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Glacial Isostasy, Sea-Level and Mantle Rheology

  • Editors: R. Sabadini, K. Lambeck, E. Boschi

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3374-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1167-6Published: 31 March 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5492-8Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3374-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 708

  • Topics: Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Geophysics/Geodesy, Atmospheric Sciences, Hydrogeology

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