This chapter presents the main rheological features of the lithosphere and of the upper mantle with respect to deformations of the solid Earth in response to time-varying surface loading. Rheological aspects as numerical modeling are discussed in view of the general strategies applied in geophysics, which are perturbations of a self-gravitating, non-rotating, linearly viscoelastic, isostatically pre-stressed Earth (SNRVEI) in a spherical geometry. Based on this model, limits of present modeling and future directions are discussed.
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Klemanna, V., Thomasa, M., & Schuha, H. (2013). Elastic and Viscoelastic Response of the Lithosphere to Surface Loading. In Handbook of Geomathematics (pp. 1–15). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27793-1_90-1
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