THE STHENOS HYPOTHESIS - THE WEAK EARTH THEORY - ISOSTATIC REBOUND FROM BAD WATER DISTRIBUITION AND FAULTY TOWERS STRESS - YES THE MELTING UND REBOUND THING

Isostasy-Paleoclimatic records show that the Greenland Ice Sheet consistently has lost mass in response to
warming, and grown in response to cooling. 

Such changes have occurred even at times of slow or zero
sea-level change, so changing sea level cannot have been the cause of at least some of the ice-sheet
changes. In contrast, there are no documented major ice-sheet changes that occurred independent of
temperature changes. Moreover, snowfall has increased when the climate warmed, but the ice sheet lost
mass nonetheless; increased accumulation in the ice sheet's center has not been sufficient to counteract
increased melting and flow near the edges. Most documented forcings and ice-sheet responses spanned
periods of several thousand years, but limited data also show rapid response to rapid forcings.
In particular, regions near the ice margin have responded within decades. However, major changes of
central regions of the ice sheet are thought to require centuries to millennia. The paleoclimatic record
does not yet strongly constrain how rapidly a major shrinkage or nearly complete loss of the ice sheet
could occur. The evidence suggests nearly total ice-sheet loss may result from warming of more than
a few degrees above mean 20th century values, but this threshold is poorly defined (perhaps as little as
2 C or more than 7 C). Paleoclimatic records are sufficiently sketchy that the ice sheet may have grown
temporarily in response to warming, or changes may have been induced by factors other than
temperature, without having been recorded.

sea levels

around the

coastline

British

Isles for

the past 10,000-15,000 years

exhibit major regional variation

and

provide an important data base for testing models

of glacial rebound as well as models of fault activation and stress related faults

from the Late Devensian ice sheet. 

THE INPUT MODELS
The earth model E. The following assumptions concerning € are made:
the model is radially symmetrical
over the region examined, in this
case Great Britain and northwestern
Europe.
the response to surface loading is
approximated by a linear viscoelastic
Maxwell body with a realistic
radial dependence of elastic
parameters and density ALLES GUTE ALLES KLAR...

 

These'corrective terms'are functions of position and time. Their evaluation requires a knowledge

the ice models I(cp,A:t),effective thickness of the lithosphere as

well as

the

effective

viscosityFurthermore, both

He

and qmay

exhibit lateral variation.

location

(cp,A)

is consistent with both the spatio-temporal patterns of sea-level change and the 

glacio-isostatic crustal rebound in response to the unloading and extra load in stressed coastal areas like the Tagus faulty towers....and,to a lesser degree,of the ice sheet over the old Fennoscandia,and now over greenland rise in sea-level ...
Buoyancy force: vertical, opposes load

In reality, buoyancy force results in

additional horizontal force:

In reality, the weight of a load is also
resisted by the strength of the
lithosphere.

 If the load is large enough compared to
that strength, the (elastic) lithosphere
bends downwards = flexure

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

Ernest Robey Banks

 In the Airy-Heiskanen system, materials that compensate for
topographic variations are assumed to lie vertically beneath the
topographic features. The density of the entire crust is assumed to
be a uniform 2. 67 gr/cm3, and that of the underlying mantle 3. 27
gr/cm , or 0. 6 gr/cm greater than that of the crust. The density
of 2. 67 gr/cm3 for the earth's crust is an arithmetic mean very mean mean

(Name)

M.S.

(Degree)

in

Oceanography

presented on

ISOSTATIC AND BOuGeR GRAVITY ANOMALIES

ALONG

THE INSIDE PASSAGE OF ALASKA AND BRITISH

COLUMBIA.

Abstract approved:

Donald F. Heinrichs

A LaCoste-Romberg surface-ship gravity

describes

the

state

of

equilibrium

of a LITHOSPHERIC plate

floating

on the

A

STHENOSPHERE