Viscosity of the Earth's Mantle
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Buoyancy
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Continental drift
Continuum mechanics
Convection
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Core–mantle boundary
Cross section (physics)
Crust (geology)
Deformation (mechanics)
Deglaciation
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Earth Changes
Earth mass
Elasticity (physics)
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Gibbs phenomenon
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Gravity of Earth
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Limit load (physics)
Lithosphere
Mantle convection
Mass distribution
Melting
Meltwater
Navier–Stokes equations
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Oceanic basin
Oceanic crust
Orbital mechanics
Orogeny
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Phase boundary
Phase transition
Pleistocene
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Sea level
Sedimentary basin
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Solidus (chemistry)
Structure of the Earth
Subsidence
Surface layer
Tectonic uplift
Temperature gradient
Thermal diffusivity
Thermal fluctuations
Transition zone (Earth)
Viscoelasticity
Viscosity
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- ISBN 9780691617831
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Approximately 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the three kilometers of ice that covered Canada, the large European glaciers in Fennoscandia and Siberia, and many other minor glaciers melted quickly. The resulting meltwaters increased the depth of the world's oceans by about 110 meters. The earth's response to this redistribution of loads was one of fluid flow. By studying the way in which that flow occurred, much can be learned about the viscosity structure of the earth's mantle: that is, how the fluid properties of the earth vary with depth. In this volume Lawrence M. Cathles III sets out to lay the theoretical foundations necessary to model the isostatic (fluid) adjustment of a self-gravitating viscoelastic sphere, such as the earth, and to use these foundations, together with geological evidence of the way the earth responded to the pleistocene land redistributions, to study the viscosity of the mantle. The author argues that the viscosity of the entire mantle is very close to 1022 poise, except for a low-viscosity channel, about 75 kilometers thick, in the uppermost mantle.
This conclusion differs sharply from the common view that the earth's mantle becomes very viscous (1027 poise) below a depth of about 1000 kilometers./p Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
