Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

Slab stagnation in the shallow lower mantle linked to an increase in mantle viscosity

(2015) Hauke Marquardt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography

(2014) S. W. French et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Mega ultra low velocity zone and mantle flow

(2013) Michael S. Thorne et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Waveform Tomography Reveals Channeled Flow at the Base of the Oceanic Asthenosphere

(2013) S. French et al.   SCIENCE

Subducted slabs stagnant above, penetrating through, and trapped below the 660 km discontinuity

(2013) Yoshio Fukao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

An unsually large ULVZ at the base of the mantle near Hawaii

(2012) Sanne Cottaar et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot

(2011) Cecily J. Wolfe et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Asymmetric shallow mantle structure beneath the Hawaiian Swell-evidence from Rayleigh waves recorded by the PLUME network

(2011) Gabi Laske et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Inferring upper-mantle structure by full waveform tomography with the spectral element method

(2011) V. Lekić et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Tracking deep mantle reservoirs with ultra-low velocity zones

(2010) Allen K. McNamara et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function measurements

(2010) J. Ritsema et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

GyPSuM: A joint tomographic model of mantle density and seismic wave speeds

(2010) Nathan A. Simmons et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

South Pacific mantle plumes imaged by seismic observation on islands and seafloor

(2009) D. Suetsugu et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Absolute plate motions constrained by shear wave splitting orientations with implications for hot spot motions and mantle flow

(2009) Corné Kreemer   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms

(2008) C. Houser et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Mantle plumes: Thin, fat, successful, or failing? Constraints to explain hot spot volcanism through time and space

(2008) Ichiro Kumagai et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

On the statistical significance of correlations between synthetic mantle plumes and tomographic models

(2008) L. Boschi et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS