Glacial Isostasy, Sea-Level and Mantle Rheology

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

3. Glaciology and Climatology

   1. Relative Sea Levels, Northeastern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, on Timescales of 103 and 102 A

      • John T. Andrews

      Pages 143-163

   2. Changing ICE Loads on the Earth’s Surface During the Last Glaciation Cycle

      • J. L. Fastook, T. J. Hughes

      Pages 165-201

   3. Global Warming Expected from Increase of Greenhouse Gases a Forcing for Sea Level Change

      • Guido Visconti

      Pages 203-212

4. Sea-Level Fluctuations

   1. The Study of Inferred Patterns of Holocene Sea-Level Change from Atlantic and Other European Coastal Margins as a Means of Testing Models of Earth Crustal Behaviour

      • R. J. N. Devoy

      Pages 213-235

   2. Secular Sea-Level Change

      • S. M. Nakiboglu, K. Lambeck

      Pages 237-258

   3. A Survey of Relative Sea-Level Changes Observed During the Holocene

      • P. A. Pirazzoli

      Pages 259-269

   4. Constraints on Long-Period Sea Level Variations from Global Tide Gauge Data

      • Andrew S. Trupin, John M. Wahr

      Pages 271-284

   5. Coastal Submergence of the Netherlands, NW Brittany (France), Delmarva Peninsula (VA, USA), and Connecticut (USA) During the Last 5500 to 7500 Sidereal Years

      • O. Van De Plassche

      Pages 285-300

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

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. 

• Climatology
• Europe
• Greenhouse gas
• Holozän
• Isostasy
• Northeaster
• Pleistocene
• Scale
• Tide
• fault
• hydrogeology

• 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

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