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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Klemann, V., Thomas, M., & Schuh, H. (2015). Elastic and viscoelastic response of the lithosphere to surface loading. In Handbook of Geomathematics: Second Edition (pp. 661–677). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54551-1_90
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