Abstract
Postglacial rebound is a major geological process which plays an important role in many areas in the earth sciences. Up to now, most of the images derived from studies of the glacial isostatic adjustment phenomenon have been concerned with surface signatures, such as the uplift and gravity anomalies and not much attention has been paid on the dynamical responses in the mantle. We will make use of the 3D visualization package Amira to depict both the external and internal deformation histories of the transient viscoelastic flow inside the mantle induced by postglacial uplift. Of particularly great interest are the transient displacement fields and shear heating inside the mantle. This same visualization technology can be brought to bear in the future for visualizing tsunami waves in ocean basins excited by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and InSAR images. We have also integrated the visualization results into the Google Earth virtual globe by combining this scheme with the Amira package to provide a better geographical and dynamical context.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 37-47 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Visual Geosciences |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments We thank Ying-chun Liu, Huai Zhang, Ben Kadlec and Xiaoru Yuan for stimulating discussions and Lapo Boschi and Georg Kaufmann for valuable comments. This work has been supported by Research Program MSM0021620860 of the Czech Ministry of Education, NSF’s ITR and CMG programs.
Keywords
- 3D visualization
- Amira package
- Google earth
- Postglacial rebound
- Viscoelastic flow