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New inferences of mantle viscosity from joint inversion of long‐wavelength mantle convection and post‐glacial rebound data
Author(s) -
Forte Alessandro M.,
Mitrovica Jerry X.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/96gl00964
Subject(s) - post glacial rebound , geoid , mantle (geology) , geology , geophysics , mantle convection , convection , glacial period , lithosphere , thermodynamics , physics , seismology , geomorphology , tectonics , measured depth
We perform joint inversions for mantle viscosity of geophysical observables associated with both mantle convection and glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA). Our data include coefficients of the non‐hydrostatic geoid (up to degree 8) and decay times associated with post‐glacial relative sea level (RSL) variations in Hudson Bay and Fennoscandia. We find that both data sets may be reconciled using a single profile of mantle viscosity which is characterized by a significant increase, with depth, across this region. This result weakens previous arguments that the mantle rheology has significant transient effects. The viscosity profiles we obtain are found to reconcile the observed free air gravity anomaly over Hudson Bay.