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Details for G. HOUSEMAN
Affiliation University of Leeds, UK
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            Stress and strain, and basic isostasy (statics).
                
                



        

        

            Derivation of thin viscous sheet equations
                
                



        

        

            Diagnostics of thin sheet deformation: matching gradients in strain-rates to gradients in GPE, and faulting response. 
Case studies: Tibet, Aegean and Indian Ocean.
                
                



        

        

            Scaling of areal extent of deformation to dimensions of boundaries and to n (England, Houseman, and Sonder, 1985), plus dependence on Ar.

Exercises on simple boundary-driven deformation problems using basic solutions.  Dependence on the Argand number, Ar, and the exponent n.
                
                



        

        

            Derivation of basic equation for growth rate.  Example of instability
                
                



        

        

            Growth rate as a function of wavenumber, dependence on boundary conditions, eigenfunctions
        

        

            Rayleigh-Taylor instability, effects of non-Newtonian viscosity. 
Derivation of the dependence of growth rate on n.
                
                



        

        

            Examples using sybil to examine the time dependence of growth: exponential for n = 1, and super-exponential with n > 1
Scaling of growth rate to n.
        

        

            Basil/sybil exercise with a sinking sphere or cylinder
                
                



        




                                        

                                  

            



        
        


            

                
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                    Directors: A. Aoudia, P. Molnar, G. Houseman, C. Jaupart, M. Manga