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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-379-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-379-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Research article
 | 
26 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 26 Mar 2020

GRACE constraints on Earth rheology of the Barents Sea and Fennoscandia

Marc Rovira-Navarro, Wouter van der Wal, Valentina R. Barletta, Bart C. Root, and Louise Sandberg Sørensen

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Data underlying the research on GRACE constraints on Earth rheology of the Barents Sea and Fennoscandia M. Rovira-Navarro, W. van der Wal, V. A. Barletta, B. C. Root, and L. Sandberg Sørensen https://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:424126e6-b5d3-4ac9-b5cd-f495c8ad6939

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The Barents Sea and Fennoscandia were home to large ice sheets around 20 000 years ago. After the melting of these ice sheets, the land slowly rebounded. The rebound speed is determined by the viscosity of the deep Earth. The rebound is ongoing and causes small changes in the Earth’s gravity field, which can be measured by the GRACE satellite mission. We use these measurements to obtain the viscosity of the upper mantle and find that it is 2 times higher in Fennoscandia than in the Barents Sea.
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