The Earth's Mantle: Evidence of Non-Newtonian Flow
- 28 September 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 181 (4106), 1242-1244
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.181.4106.1242
Abstract
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.Keywords
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