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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-649-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-649-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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16 May 2018
Research article |
| 16 May 2018
| 16 May 2018
Effects of upper mantle heterogeneities on the lithospheric stress field and dynamic topography
Anthony Osei Tutu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Bernhard Steinberger
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Stephan V. Sobolev
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Irina Rogozhina
MARUM Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Anton A. Popov
Institute of Geosciences, Johann Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Short summary
The Earth's surface is characterized by numerous geological processes, formed throughout the Earth's history to present day. The interior (mantle), on which plates rest, undergoes convection motion, generating stresses in the lithosphere plate and also causing the plate motion. This study shows that shallow density heterogeneities in the upper 300 km have a limited influence on the modeled horizontal stress field as opposed to the resulting topography, giving the importance depth sampling.
The Earth's surface is characterized by numerous geological processes, formed throughout the...
