Isostatic Recovery and the Strain Rate Dependent Viscosity of the Earth's Mantle

• Main Author: Brennen, Christopher
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 1974
• Subjects: Weertman; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/27259/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/27259/1/BRE019.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20111017-140608633

This paper is concerned with the interpretation of isostatic recovery data in terms of the flow properties of the earth's mantle. A hydrodynamic analysis is first presented that allows straightforward calculation of the relaxation time for isostatic recovery within a mantle in which the viscosi...