Spectral Methods for the Estimation of the Effective Elastic Thickness of the Lithosphere

Jon Kirby is Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University, located in Perth, Australia. Jon was born and educated in the UK, receiving a BSc in physics from Durham University, an MSc in exploration geophysics from the University of Leeds, and a PhD in geophysical geodesy from the University of Edinburgh. Although his post-doctoral career began with geoid determination, he soon gravitated towards isostasy and lithospheric flexure, and has been publishing on the topic since 2003, notably developing a wavelet-based method to estimate effective elastic thickness.

• Isostasy, Flexure and Strength.- The Fourier Transform.- Multitaper Spectral Estimation.- The Continuous Wavelet Transform.- Admittance, Coherency and Coherence.- Map Projections.- Loading and Flexure of an Elastic Plate.- Gravity and Admittance of a Flexed Plate.- The Load Deconvolution Method.- Synthetic Testing.- Practical Te Estimation.