Love's problem

doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2003.02150.x

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Geophysical Journal International

Volume 156 Issue 2, Pages 171 - 178

Published Online: 5 Jan 2004

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Love's problem

Janet M. Becker ¹ and Michael Bevis ²

¹ Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii, 1680 East–West Road, Post 813, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA. E-mail: jbecker@soest.hawaii.edu ² Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA

KEYWORDS

crustal deformation • flexure of the lithosphere • lithospheric deformation • numerical techniques

ABSTRACT

Explicit expressions for the displacements generated in a non-gravitating, homogeneous, semi-infinite half-space by uniform surface pressure applied over a rectangular region are presented. These complement expressions for the associated stress field given by Love in 1929.

Accepted 2003 September 2. Received 2003 July 23; in original form 2002 November 4

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