Melting ice caps trigger changes in tectonic movement through glacial isostatic adjustment
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Melting ice caps and glaciers trigger significant crustal motion and land deformation through glacial isostatic adjustment and elastic rebound.
Evidence for · 7
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica
2022 · cited by 18
Paper [0] analyzes glacial isostatic adjustment models in response to modern and future ice loss, emphasizing solid Earth deformation.
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More for · 6
Estimation of present-day glacial isostatic adjustment, ice mass change and elastic vertical crustal deformation over the Antarctic ice sheet
2017 · cited by 15
Paper [1] explores elastic vertical crustal deformation and glacial isostatic adjustment driven by ice mass changes over Antarctica.
Crustal movements due to Iceland’s shrinking ice caps mimic magma inflow signal at Katla volcano
2015 · cited by 13
Paper [2] shows that shrinking ice caps cause surface crustal movements that mimic tectonic and magmatic signals.
Globally consistent estimates of high-resolution Antarctic ice mass balance and spatially resolved glacial isostatic adjustment
2024 · cited by 10
Paper [3] jointly estimates spatially resolved glacial isostatic adjustment alongside Antarctic ice sheet mass balance changes.
The Global Fingerprint of Modern Ice‐Mass Loss on 3‐D Crustal Motion
2021 · cited by 6
Paper [6] computes global 3-D crustal deformation and motion patterns driven by rapid contemporary ice-mass loss.
A history-matching analysis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the last interglacial – Part 2: Glacial isostatic adjustment
2025 · cited by 1
Paper [9] models glacial isostatic adjustment and viscoelastic Earth responses to changes in Antarctic ice sheet history.
Importance of Northern Hemisphere Vertical Land Motion for Geodesy and Coastal Sea Levels
2020 · cited by 0
Paper [10] details how glacial isostatic adjustment and elastic rebound produce vertical land motion and crustal adjustments in response to ice mass changes.