We have investigated the impact of lateral viscosity variations (LVV) in the top 300 km of the mantle on the long-wavelength gravitational response of the Earth. In contrast to the previous studies we demonstrate that the ...
The most common model used for representing the evolution with age of the oceanic lithosphere is the 'plate model' where the temperature is set at a fixed depth, called the base of the plate. This 'base of the plate' has ...