Sinusoidal viscous rebound
ID: sinusoidal-viscous-rebound
A small sinusoidal relief on an incompressible Newtonian viscous half-space relaxes exponentially with the displayed timescale in the ideal free-surface model. Here is wavelength, not automatically an ice-sheet radius or diameter. Ice-history, finite mantle layering, elastic lithosphere and self-gravity complicate real glacial isostatic adjustment.
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