TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY ANOMALIES IN A STRATIFIED, VISCOELASTIC MANTLE - IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GEOID, EARTHS ROTATION AND SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS

被引:5
作者
SABADINI, R [1 ]
SPADA, G [1 ]
RICARD, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] ECOLE NORMALE SUPER,DEPT GEOL,F-75231 PARIS,FRANCE
关键词
RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY AND DENSITY JUMPS; GEOID; ROTATION; SEA LEVELS;
D O I
10.1007/BF00690576
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
The effects on the l = 2 geoid component and Earth's rotation due to internal mass anomalies are analyzed for a stratified viscoelastic mantle described by a Maxwell rheology. Our approach is appropriate for a simplified modeling of subduction. Sea-level fluctuations induced by long-term rotational instabilities are also considered. The displacement of the Earth's axis of rotation, called true polar wander (TPW) and the induced eustatic sea-level fluctuations, are extremely sensitive to viscosity and density stratification at the 670 km seismic discontinuity. Phase-change models for the transition zone generally allow for huge amount of TPW, except for large viscosity increases; the dominant contribution in Liouville equations comes from a secular term that reflects the viscous behaviour of the mantle. In chemically stratified models, TPW is drastically reduced due to dynamic compensation of the mass anomalies at the upper-lower mantle interface. When the source is embedded in the upper mantle close to the chemical density jump, transient rotational modes are the leading terms in the linear Liouville equations. Long-term rotation instabilities are valuable contributors to the third order cycles in the eustatic sea-level curves. Rates of sea-level fluctuations of the order of 0.05-0.1 mm/yr are induced by displacements of the Earth's axis of rotation compatible with paleomagnetic data.
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页数:17
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