| The elastic-plastic-viscous lithosphere | |||||||||
| Plate flexure and lithospheric rheology loading of an elastic plate | |||||||||
| The problem of loading an elastic beam with a load of arbitrary shape is described by a general fourth-order differential equation of the form: | |||||||||
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| q(x) - a downward force per unit area P - a horizontal force per unit area w - deflection of plate |
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