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Flexure of the lithosphere at Hawaii
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In this article, the authors examined the elastic flexure of the lithosphere under the load of the volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Ridge and found that a similar pattern of flexure is produced by a loaded unbroken lithosphere while the calculated amplitudes of displacement are less than half those observed.About:
This article is published in Tectonophysics.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 249 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lithospheric flexure & Ridge push.read more
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Flexural rotation of normal faults
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model is proposed for the generation of low-angle normal faults in metamorphic core complexes, based on three assumptions: (1) the isostatic response to normal fault motion is of regional extent; (2) when a fault segment is significantly rotated from the optimum angle of slip, relative to the crustal stress field, it is replaced by a new planar fault oriented in the optimum direction; and (3) the fault cuts the entire upper crust and fault motion always nucleates in the same region at the base of the upper crust
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Flexural rigidity, thickness, and viscosity of the lithosphere
TL;DR: In this article, the flexural rigidity of the earth's lithosphere is deduced from observations of the wavelength and amplitude of bending in the vicinity of supercrustal loads.
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An analysis of isostasy in the world's oceans 1. Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain
TL;DR: In this paper, cross-spectral techniques have been used to analyze the relationship between gravity and bathymetry on 14 profiles of the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, and the resulting filter or transfer function was used to evaluate the state of isostasy along the chain, which is best explained by a simple model in which the oceanic lithosphere is treated as a thin elastic plate overlying a weak fluid.
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Island subsidence, hot spots, and lithospheric thinning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that the Hawaiian swell is formed by lithospheric thinning over the Hawaiian hot spot, and the subsidence histories of several Pacific atolls are in quantitative agreement with this mechanism.
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Lithospheric flexure and thermal anomalies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the effective elastic thickness (TE) of the oceanic lithosphere as a function of age when elastically deformed show a general increase in TE with the square root of age, although there is much scatter.
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Isostatic response to loading of the crust in Canada
TL;DR: In this article, a smoothed free air anomaly map of Canada indicates that the central part of the region occupied by the Laurentide Ice Sheet is over-compensated due to incomplete recovery of the lithosphere from the displacement caused by the Pleistocene ice loads.
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Hawaiian Swell, Deep, and Arch, and Subsidence of the Hawaiian Islands
Robert S. Dietz,Henry W. Menard +1 more
TL;DR: The first detailed echo-sounder fathograms were obtained in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands during the joint Scripps Institution of Oceanography-United States Navy Electronics Laboratory Expedition to the Mid-Pacific, 1950.
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A quantitative study of isobaric equilibrium and gravity anomalies in the hawaiian islands
TL;DR: In this paper, the deformation of a strong elastic lithosphere supported by an underlying weak magma is calculated for a long mountainous load and it is shown that the calculated physical properties and gravity anomalies are remarkably like those observed.
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Marine geology of the southern hawaiian ridge
TL;DR: The structure around the southern end of the Hawaiian Islands is due to the response of the earth's crust to the great load of the Hawaii Ridge; this response is thought to be due mainly to elastic downbowing, but actual foundation failure cannot be excluded from consideration as discussed by the authors.