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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Lithospheric flexure"”.
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Lithospheric flexure of the Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota
… load of 3.32*1013 N from water on Earth's crust. Flexure models show that, using this load, the lithosphere should be deflecting approximately 30 cm at present, assuming mantle viscosities ranging from 1020 to 1021 Pas, Poissons ratio of 0.22 and an elastic lithosphere thickness of 30 km. </p><p> …
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Influence of spatially variable precipitation on passive margin escarpment evolution
… for passive margin escarpments rely on lithospheric flexure and fluvial network geometry. I suggest a role for interactions between climate and landscape evolution motivated by the Western Ghats of India. The Western Ghats experience a wet, tropical climate with …
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Lithospheric dynamics of Earth’s subduction zones and Martian tectonic provinces
This thesis investigates lithospheric dynamics of Earth’s subduction zones and Martian tectonic provinces on multiple time scales. In Chapter 2, I use geodetic observations to constrain the post-seismic viscoelastic deformation following the 1960 M9.5 Valdivia, Chile earthquake and quantify its …
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Geomechanical and tectonic investigations into the geologic history of Mars at local, regional, and global scales
… wedge but instead through a mechanism such as lithospheric flexure. I test the hypothesis that a period of enhanced contractional deformation occurred on Mars during the Late Noachian - Early Hesperian (3.8 - 3.6 Ga). The magnitude of fault-related strain and corresponding planetary radius …
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GPS Imaging of Vertical Land Motion and Earthquake Coseismic Displacements in the GPS Mega-Network
… modeling of the region determined that lithospheric flexure contributes about -1 mm/year of subsidence to the region. By combining the postseismic relaxation and glacial isostatic adjustment models, the subsidence feature was removed, suggesting that these two processes are likely the …
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Modelling Viscous Flow and Elastic Deformation in Fold-Thrust Belts and Magmatic Intrusions
… properties of the incoming sediment, and the flexure in the underthrusting plate in controlling the behaviour and evolution of fold-thrust belts. The analysis shows that the evolution of fold-thrust belts can be dominated by either gravitational spreading or vertical thickening. I apply the …