Viscosity of the Earth's Mantle / / Lawrence M. Cathles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Cathles, Lawrence M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1362
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• TABLES
• ONE. Introduction
• TWO. Physical and Mathematical Foundations
• A. Equations of Motion of Self-gravitating Elastic and Self-gravitating Viscous Spheres
• B. Constitutive Equations to Model the Earth
• C. Matrix Methods of Solution
• THREE. Formulation of the Theory For Application to the Earth
• A. Flat Earth, Constant Gravitation
• B. Spherical Earth
• FOUR. Application of Theory: The Earth's Viscosity Structure
• A. The Duration and Magnitude of the Ice Load: Meltwater Curves and Eustatic Sea Level
• B. The Lithosphere
• C. The Viscosity of the Uppermost Mantle
• D. The Upper Mantle
• E. The Viscosity of the Lower Mantle
• F. Summary of Conclusions: Recommendations for Further Work
• Appendices
• APPENDIX I. Sketch Derivation of the Navier-Stokes Equation after Eringen
• APPENDIX II. Flat Space Runge-Kutta Equations
• APPENDIX III .Reduction of Equation of Motion in Spherical Coordinates to Scaler Form after Backus (1967)
• APPENDIX IV. Boundary Conditions at the Fluid Core
• APPENDIX V. Spherical Harmonics
• APPENDIX VI .The Isostatic Adjustment of a Layered Viscous Half-Space
• APPENDIX VII. Glacial Uplift in Canada
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• Backmatter