The difficulty for subducted oceanic crust to accumulate at the Earth's core-mantle boundary

The primitive nature of large low shear-wave velocity provinces

(2012) Frédéric Deschamps et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geographic boundary of the “Pacific Anomaly” and its geometry and transitional structure in the north

(2012) Yumei He et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Dynamics and evolution of the deep mantle resulting from thermal, chemical, phase and melting effects

(2011) Paul J. Tackley   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Effects of low-viscosity post-perovskite on thermo-chemical mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell

(2011) Takashi Nakagawa et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Spin crossover and iron-rich silicate melt in the Earth’s deep mantle

(2011) Ryuichi Nomura et al.   NATURE

Living dead slabs in 3-D: The dynamics of compositionally-stratified slabs entering a “slab graveyard” above the core-mantle boundary

(2011) Paul J. Tackley   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Phase relations and equation of state of a natural MORB: Implications for the density profile of subducted oceanic crust in the Earth's lower mantle

(2010) Angèle Ricolleau et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

First-principles constraints on diffusion in lower-mantle minerals and a weak D′′ layer

(2010) M. W. Ammann et al.   NATURE

Upside-down differentiation and generation of a ‘primordial’ lower mantle

(2010) Cin-Ty A. Lee et al.   NATURE

Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   NATURE

Emulating the thermal structure of spherical shell convection in plane-layer geometry mantle convection models

(2010) Keely A. O’Farrell et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Incorporating self-consistently calculated mineral physics into thermochemical mantle convection simulations in a 3-D spherical shell and its influence on seismic anomalies in Earth's mantle

(2009) Takashi Nakagawa et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Structural features and shear-velocity structure of the “Pacific Anomaly”

(2009) Yumei He et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Weakening of calcium iridate during its transformation from perovskite to post-perovskite

(2009) Simon A. Hunt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Episodic layering of the early mantle by the ‘basalt barrier’ mechanism

(2008) Geoffrey F. Davies   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A new global model forPwave speed variations in Earth's mantle

(2008) Chang Li et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Lower Mantle

(2008) E. J. Garnero et al.   SCIENCE

On the statistical distribution of seismic velocities in Earth's deep mantle

(2007) John W. Hernlund et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS