Selected Publications

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Influential Publications

Selected from a total of 248 refereed publications.

Donald F. Argus, W. Richard Peltier and Michael M. Watkins, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Observed Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry and Satellite Laser Ranging Geodesy, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 29077 29093, 1999
G. Jarvis and W.R. Peltier, Mantle Convection as a Boundary Layer Phenomenon, Geophys. J.R. Astr. Soc., 68, 389 427, 1982
C.P. Caulfield and W.R. Peltier, The Anatomy of the Mixing Transition in Homogeneous and Stratified Free Shear Layers, J. Fluid Mech., 413, 1 47, 2000
Bruce Douglas and W.R. Peltier, The Puzzle of Global Sea Level Rise, Physics Today, 35 40, March, 2002
Andrew B.G. Bush and W.R. Peltier, Tropopause Folds and Synoptic Scale Baroclinic Wave Life Cycles, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 1581 1604, 1994
A.M. Tushingham and W.R. Peltier, Validation of the ICE 3G Model of Wurm Wisconsin Deglaciation Using a Global Data Base of Relative Sea Level Histories, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 3285 3304, 1992
A.M. Forte, W.R. Peltier, A.M. Dziewonski and R.L. Woodward, Dynamic Surface Topography: A New Interpretation Based Upon Mantle Flow Models Derived from Seismic Tomography, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 225 228, 1993
A.M. Tushingham and W.R. Peltier, ICE 3G: A New Global Model of Late Pleistocene Deglaciation Based Upon Geophysical Predictions of Post Glacial Relative Sea Level Change, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 4497 4523, 1991
A.M. Forte and W.R. Peltier, Plate Tectonics and Aspherical Earth Structure: The Importance of Poloidal Toroidal Coupling, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 3645 3679, 1987
A.M. Forte and W.R. Peltier, The Kinematics and Dynamics of Poloidal Toroidal Coupling in Mantle Flow: The Importance of Surface Plates and Lateral Viscousity Variations, Advances in Geophysics, 36, 1 119, 1994
L. Tarasov and W.R. Peltier, Greenland Glacial History, Borehole Constraints and Eemian Extent, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2143, 2003
K. Sakai and W.R. Peltier, Deglaciation Induced Climate Variability: An Explicit Model of the Glacial Interglacial Transition That Simulates both the Bolling Allerod and Younger Dryas Events, J. Meteorological Soc. Japan, 76, 1029 1044, 1998
K. Rostami, W. R. Peltier and A. Mangini, Quaternary Marine Terraces, Sea Level Changes and Uplift History of Patagonia, Argentina: Comparisons with Predictions of the ICE 4G (VM2) Model..., Quat. Sci. Rev., 19, 1495 1525, 2000
J.X. Mitrovica, and W.R. Peltier, Present Day Secular Variations in the Zonal Harmonics of Earths Geopotential, J.Geophys. Res., 98, 4509 4526, 1993
J.X. Mitrovica and W.R. Peltier, The Inference of Mantle Viscosity from an Inversion of the Fennoscandian Relaxation Spectrum, Geophys. J. Int., 114, 45 62, 1993
J.X. Mitrovica and W.R. Peltier, On Postglacial Geoid Subsidence Over the Equatorial Oceans, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 20053 20071, 1991
J.F. Scinocca and W.R. Peltier, Pulsating Downslope Windstorms, J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 2885 2914, 1989
J.A. Clark, W.E. Farrell and W.R. Peltier, Global Changes in Postglacial Sea Level: a Numerical Calculation, Quaternary Research, 9, 265 287, 1978
G.P. Klaassen and W.R. Peltier, The onset of Turbulence in Finite Amplitude Kelvin Helmholtz Billows, J. Fluid Mech., 155, 1 35, 1985
G.P. Klaassen and W.R. Peltier, The Influence of Stratification on Secondary Instability in Free Shear Layers, J. Fluid Mech., 227, 71 106, 1991
G.P. Klaassen and W.R. Peltier, The Role of Transverse Secondary Instabilities in the Evolution of Free Shear Layers, J. Fluid Mech., 202, 367 402, 1989
T.L. Clark, W.R. Peltier, On the Evolution and Stability of Finite Amplitude Mountain Waves, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 34, 1715 1730, 1977
T.L. Clark and W.R. Peltier, Critical Level Reflection and the Resonant Growth of Nonlinear Mountain Waves, J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 3122 3134, 1984
T.J. Crowley, W.T. Hyde and W.R. Peltier, CO2 levels required for deglaciation of a near snowball Earth,Geophys. Res. Lettt. 28, 283 286, 2001
S.M. Polavarapu, W.R. Peltier, The Structure and Nonlinear Evolution of Synoptic Scale Cyclones, Life Cycle Simulations with a Cloud Scale Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 47, 2645 2673, 1990
P.G. Potylitsin and W.R. Piltier, Stratification Effects on the Stability of Columnar Vortices on the f plane, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 355, 45 79, 1998
P.A. Davis, W.R. Peltier, Resonant Parallel Shear Instability in Stably Stratified Planetary Boundary Layer, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 33, 1287 1300, 1976
P. Wu and W.R. Peltier, Viscous Gravitational Relaxation, Geophys. J.R. Astr. Soc., 70, 435 485, 1982
P. Wu and W.R. Peltier, Pleistocene Deglaciation and the Earths Rotation: A New Analysis, Geophys. J.R. Astr. Soc., 76, 753 792, 1984
N.J. Shackleton, A. Berger, and W.R. Peltier, An Alternative Astronomical Calibration of the Lower Pleistocene Timescale Based on ODP Site 677, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 81, 251 261, 1990
P. Wu and W.R. Peltier, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and the Free Air Gravity Anomaly as a Constraint on Deep Mantle Viscosity, Geophys. J.R. Astron. Soc., 74, 377 449, 1983
Lev Tarasov and W.R. Peltier, Greenland Glacial History and Local Geodynamic Consequences, Geophys. J. Int., 150, 198 229, 2002
Lev Tarasov and W.R. Peltier, A Geophysically Constrained Large Ensemble Analysis of the Deglacial history of the North American Ice Sheet Complex, Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 359 388, 2004
L.P. Solheim and W.R. Peltier, Avalanche Effects in Phase Transition Modulated Thermal Convection, a Model of The Earths Mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 6997 7018, 1994
W.R. Peltier, Global Glacial Isostasy and the Surface of the Ice Age Earth: The ICE 5G (VM2) Model and GRACE, Invited Paper, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 32, 111 149, 2004
W.R. Peltier, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment II: The Inverse Problem, Geophys. J. Roy. Astr., Soc., 46, 669 706, 1976
W.R. Peltier, Deglaciation Induced Vertical Motion of the North American Continent and Transient Lower Mantle Rheology, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 9099 9123, 1986
W.R. Peltier, Dynamics of the Ice Age Earth, Advances in Geophysics, 24, 1 146, 1982
W.R. Peltier, Constraint on Deep Mantle Viscosity from LAGEOS Acceleration Data, Nature, 304, 434 436, 1983
W.R. Peltier, A.M. Forte, J.X. Mitrovica and A.M. Dziewonski, Earths Gravitational Field, Seismic Tomography Resolves the Enigma of the Laurentian Anomaly, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1555 1558, 1992
W.R. Peltier and T.L. Clark, The Evolution and Stability of Finite Amplitude Mountain Waves. Part II: Surface Wave Drag and Severe Downslope Windstorms, J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 1498 1529, 1979
W.R. Peltier and Xianhua Jiang, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Earth Rotation: Refined Constraints on the Viscosity of the Deepest Mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 3269 3290 (incl. correction in JGR, 102, 10101 10103, 1997), 1996
W.R. Peltier and L.P. Solheim, The climate of the Earth at Last Glacial Maximum. Statistical equilibrium state and a mode of internal variability, Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 335 357, 2004
W.R. Peltier and L.P. Solheim, Mantle Phase Transitions and Layered Chaotic Convection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 321 324, 1992
W.R. Peltier and J.T. Andrews, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment I: the Forward Problem, Geophys. J. Roy astr. Soc., 46, 605 646, 1976
W.R. Peltier and J.F. Scinocca, The Origin of Severe Downslope Windstorm Pulsations, J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 2853 2870, 1990
W.R. Peltier and C.P. Caulfield, Mixing Efficiency in Stratified Shear Flows, Invited Paper, Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 35, 135 167, 2003
W.R. Peltier and A.M. Tushingham, Influence of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment on Tide Gauge Measurements of Secular Sea Level Change, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 6779 6796, 1991
W.R. Peltier and A.M. Tushingham, Global Sea Level Rise and the Greenhouse Effect: Might They be Connected, Science, 244, 806 810, 1989
W.D. Smyth, G.P. Klaassen, and W.R. Peltier, Finite Amplitude Holmboe Waves, Geophys Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 43, 181 222, 1988
W.D. Smyth and W.R. Peltier, Three Dimensionalization of Barotropic Vortices on the f plane. J. Fluid Mech. 265, 25 64, 1994
William T. Hyde, Thomas J. Crowley, Lev Tarasov and W.R. Peltier, The Pangean Ice Age. Studies with a coupled Climate Ice Sheet Model, Climate Dynamics, 15, 619 629, 1999
W.T. Hyde, Thomas J. Crowley, Steven Baum and W.R. Peltier, Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth Simulations with a Coupled Climate Ice Sheet Model, Nature, 405, 425 429, 2000
W.R. Peltier, W.E. Farrell, J.A. Clark, Glacial Isostasy and Relative Sea Level: A Global Finite Element Model, Tectonophysics, 50, 81 110, 1978
W.R. Peltier, The Thickness of the Continental Lithosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 89, B13, 11303 11316, 1984
W.R. Peltier, The LAGEOS Constraint on Deep Mantle Viscosity: Results From a New Normal Mode Method for the Inversion of Viscoelastic Relaxation Spectra, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 9411 9421, 1985
W.R. Peltier, The Impulse Response of a Maxwell Earth, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 12, 649 669, 1974
W.R. Peltier, T.L. Clark, Nonlinear Mountain Waves in Two and Three Spatial Dimensions, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 109, 527 548, 1983
W.R. Peltier, R.A. Drummond and A.M. Tushingham, Post Glacial Rebound and Transient Lower Mantle Rheology, Geophys. J.R. Astr. Soc., 87, 79 116, 1986
W.R. Peltier, On Eustatic Sea Level History: Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews, 21, 377 396, 2002
W.R. Peltier, Mantle Viscosity and Ice Age Ice Sheet Topography, Science, 273, 1359 1364, 1996
W.R. Peltier, Lithospheric Thickness, Antarctic Deglaciation History, and Ocean Basin Discretization Effects in a Global Model of Postglacial Sea Level Change: A Summary of Some Sources of Nonuniqueness, Quaternary Research, 29, 93 112, 1988
W.R. Peltier, Ice Age Paleotopography, Science, 265, 195 201, 1994
W.R. Peltier, Ice Age Geodynamics, Invited Paper, Ann. Rev. Earth Planetary Sciences, 9, 199 225, 1981
W.R. Peltier, Postglacial Variations in the Level of the Sea. Implications for Climate Dynamics and Solid Earth Geophysics, Reviews of Geophysics, 36, 603 689, 1998
W.R. Peltier, Ian Shennan, Rosemarie Drummond and Ben Horton, On the Postglacial Isostatic adjustment of the British Isles and the Shallow Viscoelastic Structure of the Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 148, 443 475, 2002
W.R. Peltier, Global Sea Level and Earth Rotation, Science, 240, 895 901, 1988
W.R. Peltier, Global Sea Level Rise and Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Global and Planetary Change, 20, 93 123, 1999
W.R. Peltier, Global Glacial Isostatic Adjustment: Paleogeodetic and Space Geodetic Tests of the ICE 4G (VM2) Model, J. Quat. Sci., 17, 491 510, 2002

Chapters in Books

27 of the total of 56 book chapters are hyperlinked for download

W.R. Peltier. Global glacial isostasy.Target fields for space geodesy. Proc. 15th Int. Wrkshp on Laser Ranging, Canberra, Aus., 16 20 Oct. 2006 J. Luck et al. eds. EOS Space Systems Pty.Ltd.,pp. 55 68,2008
W.R. Peltier, The Record of Paleoclimatic Change and Its Greenhouse Implications, in Geosphere Biosphere Interactions and Climate, L.O. Bengtsson and C.U. Hammer eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 199 202, 2001
W.R. Peltier, Mantle Dynamics and the D doubleprime Layer.Implications of the Post perovskite Phase, AGU Geodynamics Series Monograph, AGU Books, pages 217 227, 2007
K. Sakai and W.R. Peltier, The Influence of Deep Ocean Diffusivity on the Temporal Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation, in The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change: Past, Present and Future, D. Seidov and M.Maslin eds., pp. 227 242, AGU Press, 2001
Moore, G.W.K. and W.R. Peltier, On the Development of Polar Low Wavetrains, in Polar Lows, E. Rasmussen ed., pp. 141 153, A. Deepak Publishing Ltd., Hampton, Virginia, 1989
Peltier, W.R., Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Relative Sea Level Change, in Sea Level Change, R. Revelle ed., National Academy Press, Studies in Geophysics Series, pp. 73 87, Washington, DC, 1990
W.R. Peltier, Ice Sheets, Cceans, and the Earths Shape, in N.A. Morner, ed., Earth Rheology Isostasy and Eustasy, John Wiley and Sons, 45 63, 1979
W.R. Peltier and Gordan R. Stuhne, The Upscale Turbulent Cascade: Shear Layers, Cyclones and Gas Giant bands, in Meteorology at the Millennium, R.P. Pierce ed., pp. 43 61, Academic Press, Harcourt, London, 2001
W.R. Peltier and L.P. Solheim, Dynamics of the Ice Age Earth: Solid Mech. and Fluid Mech., in ERCA v.5, From the Impacts of Human Activ. on our Climate and Environment..., C.Boutron ed., pp. 85 104, J. de Phys. IV, EDP Sci., Les Ulis, France, 2002
W.R. Peltier, Earth Physics and Global Glacial Isostasy: From Paleo Geodesy to Space Geodesy, in Gravity, Geoide and Geodynamics, Michael Sideris ed., pp. 7 12, Springer Verlag Inc., 2001
Peltier, W.R., Samuel Butler and L.P. Solheim, The Influence of Phase Transformations on Mantle Mixing and Plate Tectonics, in Earths Deep Interior, D.J. Crossley Ed., Gordan and Breach Publishers Inc., pp. 405 430, 1997
W.R. Peltier, Global Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Modern Instrumental Records of Relative Sea Level History, in Sea Level Rise: History and Consequences, B.C. Douglas, M.S. Kearney and S.R. Leatherman eds. pp. 65 95. Acad. Press, San Diego, 2001
W. R. Peltier,Postglacial Coastal Evolution. Ice Ocean Solid Earth Interactions in a Period of Rapid Climate Change,in . Harff et al. eds, GSA Books Inc., Boulder Colorado, pages 5 28, 2007
W.R. Peltier, Climatic Implications of Isostatic Adjustment Constraints on Current Variations of Eustatic Sea Level, in Glaciers, Ice Sheets and Sea Level: Effect of CO2 Ind. Clim. Change, M. Meier ed., Nat.Acad.Press, Washington, DC, pp. 92 103, 1985
W.R. Peltier, Our Fragile Inheritance, in Planet Under Stress, Constance Mungall and Digby J. McLaren eds, pp. 80 95, Oxford University Press, Toronto, [Also published in French in La Terre en Peril, Les Presses de LUniversite DOttawa, Ottawa] 1990
Peltier, W.R., Physics of the Ice Age Cycle, in Long Term Climate Variations, J. C. Duplessy Ed., Springer Verlag Inc., pp. 453 479, 1994
Sakai, Kotaro and W.R. Peltier, Oscillatory Modes of Behavior in a Simple Model of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation, in Ice in the Climate System, W.R. Peltier, ed., Springer Verlag, pp. 459 479, 1993
Forte, A.M., and W.R. Peltier, Lateral Heterogeneity and the Geoid: The Importance of Surface Kinematic Constraints, in Mathematical Geophysics, S. Cloetinghe, N. Vlaar, and R. Wurtele eds., D. Reidel Publ. Co., pp. 291 323, 1988
W.R. Peltier, Mantle Convection and Viscosity, in A. Dziewonski and E. Boschi eds., Physics of the Earths Interior, Proceedings of the Enrico Fermi Summer School in Physics, North Holland Publishing Co., 362 431, 1980
W.R. Peltier and Kotaro Sakai, Dansgaard Oeschger Oscillations: a Hydrodynamic Theory, in The Northern North Atlantic: A Changing Environment, P. Schafer, W. Ritzrau, M. Schuter and J. Thiede eds., Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 423 439, 2001
Peltier, W.R. et al., How can we Use Paleodata for Evaluating the Internal Variability and Feedbacks..., in Global Changes in the Persp. of the Past, A Dahlem Conf. pub., J.Eddy and H.Oeschger eds., J.Wiley and Sons Ltd., pp. 239 262, 1993
W.R.Peltier, L.Tarasov, G.Vettoretti and L.P.Solheim, Climate Dynamics in Deep Time: Modelling the Snowball Bifurcation and Assessing the Plausibility..., in Neoproteroz. Glacial Extremes, G. Jenkins et al. eds., AGU Monogr., 146, 107 124, 2004
W.R. Peltier, Global Glacial Isostasy and Relative Sea Level: Implications for Solid Earth Geophysics and Climate System Dynamics, in Dynamics of the Ice Age Earth: a Modern Perspective, P. Wu ed., pp. 17 54, Trans. Tech. Pubs, Switz., 1998
Peltier, W.R., Mechanisms of Relative Sea Level Change and the Geophysical Responses to Ice Water Loading, in Sea Surface Studies, R. Devoy ed., Croom Helm (Beckenham, Kent), pp. 57 94, 1987
Eystein Jansen et al including W.R. Peltier, Paleoclimatology, Chapter 6 in Climatre Change 2007. WG 1 Reprt of the IPCC, 2007
W.R. Peltier, History of Earth Rotation, in Volume 9 of the Treatise on Geophysics, G. Schubert Editor, pp. 243 293, Elsevier Press, Oxford, 2007

Chapters in Books (titles only)

A.M. Forte and W.R. Peltier, Surface Plate Kinematics and Mantle Convection, in Dynamics of the Continental Lithosphere and Asthenosphere, C. Froidevaux ed., A.G.U. press, Washington, DC, pp. 125-136, 1987.pdf
C.P. Caulfield and W.R. Peltier, Richardson Number Dependence of Three-Dimensional Motions in Shear Flows, in Mixing and Dispersion in Stably Stratified Flows, Peter A. Davies ed., Oxford University Press, pp. 73-88, 1999.pdf
D.A. Yuen, and W.R. Peltier, Temperature Dependent Viscosity and Local Instabilities in Mantle Convection, in A.Dziewonski et al. eds., Phys. of the Earths Interior, Procs. of the E.Fermi Summer School in Phys., N. Holland Pubs. Co.,432-463,1980.pdf
Forte, A.M. and W.R. Peltier, Gross Earth Data and Mantle Convection: New Inferences of Mantle Viscosity, in Glacial Isostasy and Mantle Rheology, R. Sabadini and K. Lambeck eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers Inc., Dordrecht, pp. 120-157, 1991.pdf
J.T. Andrews and W.R. Peltier, Quaternary geodynamics, in J.A. Heginbottom ed., Decade of North American Geology (DNAG) Quaternary of Canada volume, pp. 584-616, 1989.pdf
Jarvis, G.T. and W.R. Peltier, Convection Models and Geophysical Observations, in W.R. Peltier ed., Mantle Convection, 479-593, Gordon and Breach, New York, pp. 857, 1989.pdf
Jarvis, G.T. and W.R. Peltier, Long Wavelength Features of Mantle Convection, in Mathematical Geophysics, S. Cloetinghe, N. Vlaar, and R. Wurtele editors, D. Reidel Publ. Co., pp. 209-226, 1988.
Mitrovica, J.X. and W.R. Peltier, Radial Resolution in the Inference of Mantle Viscosity from Observations of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, in Glacial Isostasy and Mantle Rheology, R.Sabadini et al. eds., Kluwer Acad. Pubs., Dordrecht, pp. 63-78, 1991.pdf
Peltier, W.R. and J.F. Scinocca, Breaking Internal Waves Over Isolated Topography, in Nonlinear Phenomena in Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences, G. Carnevale and R. Pierrehumbert eds., Springer-Verlag Inc., pp. 239-259, 1992.pdf
Peltier, W.R. and L.P. Solheim, Mantle Phase Transitions, Layered Chaotic Convection, and the Viscosity of the Deep Mantle, in Nonlinear Processes in the Geological Sciences, D. Yuen ed., Springer-Verlag Inc., pp. 111-139, 1992.pdf
Peltier, W.R., A Relaxation Oscillator Model of the Ice Age Cycle, in Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in the Geosciences G. Nicolis and G. Nicolis ed., Academic Press, pp. 399-416, 1986.pdf
Peltier, W.R., G.T. Jarvis, A.M. Forte, and L.P. Solheim, Radial Structure of the Mantle General Circulation, in W.R. Peltier ed., Mantle Convection, 479-593, Gordon and Breach, New York, 765-815, 1989.pdf
Peltier, W.R., Glacial Isostasy, Mantle Viscosity, and Pleistocene Climatic Change, in The Geology of North America Vol. K-3, North America and Adjacent Oceans..., W.F. Ruddiman and H.E. Wright eds., GSA, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 155-181, 1987.pdf
Peltier, W.R., Glacial isostasy in Laurentia and Fennoscandia: New Results for the Anomalous Gravitational Field, in Earthquakes at North-Atlantic Passive Margins..., S. Gregersen and P.W. Basham eds., pp. 93-107, D. Reidel Publ. Co., 693pp.,1989.pdf
Peltier, W.R., Lithospheric Thickness, Antarctic Deglaciation History, and Ocean Basin Discretization Effects in a Global Model..., in Mathematical Geophysics, S. Cloetinghe et al. eds., D. Reidel Publ. Co., pp. 325-346, 1988.pdf
Peltier, W.R., Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics: the Emergence of Paradigm in Global Geodynamics, in W.R. Peltier ed., Mantle Convection, 479-593, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1-22, 1989.pdf
Peltier, W.R., Mantle Viscosity, in W.R. Peltier ed., Mantle Convection, 479-593, Gordon and Breach, New York, 389-478, 1989.pdf
Peltier, W.R., The Ice-3G Model of Late Pleistocene Deglaciation: Construction, Verification, and Applications, in Glacial Isostasy and Mantle Rheology, R. Sabadini and K. Lambeck eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers Inc., Dordrecht, pp. 95-119, 1991.pdf
Peltier, W.R., and W.T. Hyde, Glacial Isostasy and the Ice Age Cycle, in The Physical Basis of Ice Sheet Modelling, E. Waddington ed., Elsevier, pp. 247-260, 1987.pdf
S.Butler and W.R.Peltier, Scale Invariance of the Avalanche Effect in Phase Transition Modulated Mantle Mixing, in Scale Invariance and Beyond, Procs. Europhys. Conf., Les Houches, France, (ed. B.Dubrulle et al.) pp. 147-157, S.-Verlag, Berlin, 1997.pdf
W.R. Peltier and John T. Andrews, Glacial Geology and Glacial Isostasy of the Hudson Bay Region, in D.E. Smith and A. Dawson editors, Shorelines and Isostasy, Academic Press, pp. 285-319, 1983.pdf
W.R. Peltier and L.P. Solheim, Ice in the Climate System: Paleoclimatological Perspectives, in Present and Future of Modeling Global Environmental Change: Toward Integrated Modeling, T. Matsuno ed., pp. 221-241, Terrapub Inc., 2001.pdf
W.R. Peltier and W. Hyde, A Model of the Ice Age Cycle. In Milankovitch and Climate Part 2, A. Berger. et al. D. Reidel. Dordrecht. pp. 565-580, 1984.pdf
W.R. Peltier, Models of Glacial Isostasy and Relative Sea Level, in R.I. Walcott, ed., Dynamics of Plate Interiors, AGU Publications Ltd., 111-128, 1980.pdf
W.R. Peltier, P. Wu and D.A. Yuen, The Viscosities of the Planetary Mantle, in F. Stacey, M.S. Paterson, and A. Nicholas editors, Anelasticity in the Earth, Geodynamics Series volume 4, AGU, Washington, D.C., pp. 59-77, 1981.pdf
W.R. Peltier, Postglacial Sea Level Variations in the Farfield of Ice Sheets: Glacial Cycle Effects on Present Day Secular Sea Level Change, in Dynamics of the Ice-Age Earth: a Modern Persp., P. Wu ed., Trans. Tech. Pubs, Switz., pp. 421-442, 1998.pdf
W.R. Peltier, Slow Changes in the Earths Shape and Gravitational Field: Constraints on the Deglaciation History and Internal Viscoelastic Stratification, in J. Anderson and A. Cazanave eds., Space Geodesy and Geodynamics, A.P., pp. 75-109,1986.pdf
W.R. Peltier, Surface Plates and Thermal Plumes: Separate Scales of the Mantle Convective Circulation, in R.J. OConnell and W.S. Fyfe editors, Evolution of the Earth, Geodynamics Series volume 5, AGU, Washington, D.C., pp. 229-248, 1981.pdf
W.R. Peltier, W.E. Farrell and J.A. Clark, Glacial Isostasy and Relative Sea Level: a Global Finite Element Model, in N.A. Toksoz ed., Ocean Ridges and Arcs, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1-30, 1979.pdf

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