Fig. 6

Cross sections of the lithospheric flexure of uniform T_e plates to a cuboid loading. The centre of the cuboid is placed at (2500, 2500) km, with height of 1 km, both length and width of 80 km, density of \(\rho_{c}\). The grey solid line is for a T_e = 25 km plate, the grey dotted line is for a T_e = 5 km plate and the black solid line is calculated by the grey solid curve minus the grey dotted curve