Three-dimensional finite-element modelling of Earth's viscoelastic deformation: effects of lateral variations in lithospheric thickness

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Zhong, Shijie, Paulson, Archie, Wahr, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2003
• Subjects: Articles; Peltier; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/155/2/679; https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.02084.x

We have developed a 3-D spherical finite-element model to study the dynamic response to surface loads of a self-gravitating and incompressible Earth with 3-D viscoelastic structure. We have forced our model with the ICE-3G deglaciation history of Tushingham & Peltier to study the effects of late...