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Elastic-plastic bending of the lithosphere incorporating rock deformation data, with application to the structure of the Hawaiian archipelago

Hsi-Ping, Liu and Kosloff, Dan (1978) Elastic-plastic bending of the lithosphere incorporating rock deformation data, with application to the structure of the Hawaiian archipelago. Tectonophysics, 50 (2-3). pp. 249-274. ISSN 0040-1951. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(78)90138-5. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170526-105618013

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Abstract

An elastic-plastic lithosphere bending model incorporating rock deformation data has been developed for computation of flexure profiles at mid-ocean island chains and at the trenches near the plate boundaries. Flexure of the plate is computed by finite-element numerical solution of Von Kármán's equation for large deflection of plates with a nonlinear material behavior. The elastic part of the constitutive relation is derived from seismology (moduli = 90% of the seismic values) while the strain rate-dependent plastic part is derived from dunite deformation data extrapolated to the appropriate geologic loading rates. As an illustration, the amplitude and the wavelength of the Hawaiian Arch, the vertical displacement of the Moho under the Hawaiian Archipelago, and the free-air gravity anomalies are fitted to within observation accuracy by the present lithosphere flexure model.


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Additional Information:© 1978 Elsevier B.V. Received 21 April 1978. We wish to thank Professor Ronald F. Scott of the California Institute of Technology for his inspiration and guidance during our several years of association with him. Indeed, the basic idea of the present work was formed when one of us (H.-P. Liu) sat in his class of Foundation Engineering listening to his lecture on elastic-plastic design of pavements. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Contract No. DES75-15013 and Grant No. EAR76-21717. Contribution No. 2987 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology.
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Issue or Number:2-3
DOI:10.1016/0040-1951(78)90138-5
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Official Citation:Liu Hsi-Ping, Dan Kosloff, Elastic-plastic bending of the lithosphere incorporating rock deformation data, with application to the structure of the Hawaiian archipelago, Tectonophysics, Volume 50, Issue 2, 1978, Pages 249-274, ISSN 0040-1951, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(78)90138-5. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0040195178901385)
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