Studies of the State of Stress, Mechanical Behavior, and Density Structure of the Lithosphere |
Contents
THEORY | 20 |
THERMAL AND MECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE | 35 |
ON ISOSTATIC GEOID ANOMALIES | 58 |
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Common terms and phrases
Airy compensation assumed bathymetry bending moments Bermuda Swell continental crust continental margin cooling cote crustal deflection deformation depth deviatoric stress Devonian Dundee Formation disc load earth's crust elastic lithosphere erosion flat plate flexural parameter flexural rigidity function geoid anomaly geoid height geoid low geological time scales Geophys given in Figure gm/cm³ gravity anomaly gravity field horizontal initial surface heat isostasy isostatic compensation isostatic equilibrium isostatic rebound lithospheric flexure lunar mare mantle rock mass mechanical membrane stresses Michigan Basin Middle Ordovician Trenton nondimensional Observed GEOS-3 profile ocean ridge oceanic lithosphere oceanic trenches Ordovician Trenton Limestone plate tectonics Pratt predicted geoid anomaly radius rates of erosion region removal of overburden result sea floor sea level sedimentary sedimentation Smoothed version solution southwest quadrant spherical shell stresses due subsidence surface heat flow Talwani temperature distribution thermal stress thickness tion topography Turcotte vertical Walcott Watts wavelength