Advances in Geophysics, Volume 36 (Advances in Geophysics)
Contributors: Renata Dmowska (Series Editor); Barry Saltzman (Series Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 27, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780120188369
First sentence: The ability of the mantle and lithosphere to creep over geologic time scales is due to the presence of naturally occurring atomic-scale defects in the lattice of crystal grains (e.g., Weertman and Weertman, 1975; Carter, 1976; Nicolas and Poirier, 1976; Weertman, 1978).