Wu / Ltd Dynamics of the Ice Age Earth

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-3-0357-3987-9
Verlag: Trans Tech Publications
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 656 Seiten

Although the last Ice Age ended about ten thousand years ago, its effects are still influencing human activities today - for example: coastal engineering, siting of nuclear waste depositories, intraplate earthquake mitigation, inaccuracy of a global positioning due to changes in the Geodetic Reference Frame, etc.
The recognition of Ice Ages and glacial isostasy led to the first scientific revolution in earth science. During the last few decades, studies of the Dynamics of the Ice Age Earth have brought together various disciplines - including geomorphology, geodynamics, rock and ice rheology, geodesy, glaciology, oceanography, climatology, astronomy, engineering and archeology.Recent interest in the subject has surged forward due to new advances in space-age geodetic techniques and new developments in modeling methods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wu, Patrick

Ltd, Trans Tech Publications

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
The Birth and Development of the Concept of Glacio-Isostasy and its Modelling up to 1974
Global Glacial Isostasy and Relative Sea Level: Implications for Solid Earth Geophysics and Climate System Dynamics
Gravitational-Viscoelastic Field Theory
Load-Induced Viscoelastic Relaxation: An Elementary Example
The Significance of Pre-Stress Advection and Internal Buoyancy in the Flat-Earth Formulation
Effects of Compressibility and Stratification on Viscoelastic Relaxation: The Analytical Perspective
Initial-Value Approach for Viscoelastic Responses of the Earth's Mantle
Static Deformation of the Outer Core
Validity of Using Flat-Earth Finite Element Models in the Study of Postglacial Rebound
Viscoelastic Channel Flow
Dynamics of the Pleistocene Ice Sheets
How to Model the Waxing and Waning of Ice-Sheets
Tutorial on Strategies for Using Isostatic Adjustments in Models that Reconstruct Ice Sheets during the Last Deglaciation
Inference on Mantle Rheology
Plausible Mantle Rheology
Micro-Physics of Post Glacial Rebound

Postglacial Rebound Modeling with Power-Law Rheology
Recent Pstglacial Rebound of Fennoscandia: A Short Review and Some Numerical Results
Evidence of Late Holocene Post-Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Costal Wetland Deposits of Estern North America
A Comparison between Postglacial Isostatic Predictions and Late Holocene Sea-Level Field Data from Mediterranean and Iranian Costal Areas
Postglacial Sea Level Variations in the Far Field of the Ice-Sheets: Glacial Cycle Effects on Present-Day Secular Sea Level Change
Rheological Structure of the Upper Mantle Inferred from the Holocene Sea-Level Change along the West Coast of Kyushu, Japan
Postglacial Rebound and Other Influences on the Earth`s Secular Rotation Rate, from Analysis of Ancient Eclipse Records
Mantle Layering and Long-Term Rotational Response of the Earth to Glacial Cycles
Geodetic Technique for Estimating Changes in Polar Ice
The Vertification of the Solid Earth Response on Changing Ice Loads: A Geodetic Project in West Greenland
Secular Variations in the Earth`s Gravitational Field from Analysis of SLR Data
The Use of Satellite Laser Ranging and Long Duration Orbitral Changes to Constrain Geophysical Models
Postglacial Rebound with Lateal Heterogeneities: from 2D to 3D Modeling
Upper Mantle Lateral Viscosity Variations and Postglacial Rebound: Application to the Barents sea
Intraplate Earthquakes and Postglacial Rebound in Eastern Canada and Northern Europe