Science · 1973 · 150 citations · 18 references
Natural SciencesEarth SciencesGeophysicsPlanetary GeologyRheologyTectonophysicsGeodynamic ModelingLithospheric DeformationPlanetary Mantle DynamicsPlanetary RheologyRheology Of RocksMantle DeformationMantle RheologyPostglacial ReboundRheological BehaviorRheological PropertiesShear StrainShear StressUpper Mantle Structure
Recent information from experimentally deformed dunite coupled with a reanalysis of data on the Fennoscandian postglacial rebound suggest that the rheological behavior of the upper mantle is distinctly non-Newtonian, and that the shear strain rate is proportional to the shear stress raised to about the third power.
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