TY - JOUR
T1 - Seamount loading of a compressible viscoelastic plate
T2 - An analytical solution
AU - Nakada, Masao
AU - Lambeck, Kurt
PY - 1986/1/1
Y1 - 1986/1/1
N2 - Analytical solutions are presented for the surface loading of a compressible plate with a arbitrary Poisson's ratio. In problems of seamount loading of oceanic lithosphere the compressibility is important only for young loads, of age about 3 times less than the effective relaxation time. In these case the usual assumption of an incompressible layer leads to an overestimation of the effective flexural rigidity of the lithosphere.
AB - Analytical solutions are presented for the surface loading of a compressible plate with a arbitrary Poisson's ratio. In problems of seamount loading of oceanic lithosphere the compressibility is important only for young loads, of age about 3 times less than the effective relaxation time. In these case the usual assumption of an incompressible layer leads to an overestimation of the effective flexural rigidity of the lithosphere.
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U2 - 10.1016/0264-3707(86)90025-6
DO - 10.1016/0264-3707(86)90025-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0022889397
VL - 5
SP - 103
EP - 110
JO - Journal of Geodynamics
JF - Journal of Geodynamics
SN - 0264-3707
IS - 1
ER -