E-Book, Englisch, Band 1362, 414 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1362, 414 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6768-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Frontmatter, pg. i
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii
CONTENTS, pg. ix
ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xiii
TABLES, pg. xix
ONE. Introduction, pg. 1
A. Equations of Motion of Self-gravitating Elastic and Self-gravitating Viscous Spheres, pg. 9
B. Constitutive Equations to Model the Earth, pg. 23
C. Matrix Methods of Solution, pg. 30
A. Flat Earth, Constant Gravitation, pg. 35
B. Spherical Earth, pg. 72
A. The Duration and Magnitude of the Ice Load: Meltwater Curves and Eustatic Sea Level, pg. 113
B. The Lithosphere, pg. 144
C. The Viscosity of the Uppermost Mantle, pg. 155
D. The Upper Mantle, pg. 173
E. The Viscosity of the Lower Mantle, pg. 196
F. Summary of Conclusions: Recommendations for Further Work, pg. 267
APPENDIX I. Sketch Derivation of the Navier-Stokes Equation after Eringen, pg. 277
APPENDIX II. Flat Space Runge-Kutta Equations, pg. 285
APPENDIX III.Reduction of Equation of Motion in Spherical Coordinates to Scaler Form after Backus (1967), pg. 291
APPENDIX IV. Boundary Conditions at the Fluid Core, pg. 299
APPENDIX V. Spherical Harmonics, pg. 307
APPENDIX VI.The Isostatic Adjustment of a Layered Viscous Half-Space, pg. 319
APPENDIX VII. Glacial Uplift in Canada, pg. 338
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 359
INDEX, pg. 373
