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Models of crustal deformation
Author(s) -
Rundle John B.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg021i006p01454
Subject(s) - lithosphere , geology , asthenosphere , deformation (meteorology) , isostasy , seismology , viscoelasticity , geophysics , lithospheric flexure , tectonics , physics , oceanography , thermodynamics
This review is principally concerned with theoretical models of crustal deformation developed during this quadrennium. Observational data, as well as topics in lithospheric flexure and isostasy, are covered in companion reviews in this volume. Progress has been made toward constructing both new inelastic, and inhomogeneous elastic, models of earthquake‐induced crustal deformation. Most of the inelastic models involve dislocations or Green's functions in an elastic or anelastic lithosphere which overlies a Maxwell viscoelastic asthenosphere.