An evolving view of transition zone and midmantle viscosity

Why cold slabs stagnate in the transition zone

(2015) Scott D. King et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2015) Scott W. French et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) Hauke Marquardt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Viscosity jump in Earths mid-mantle

(2015) M. L. Rudolph et al.   SCIENCE

The long-wavelength geoid from three-dimensional spherical models of thermal and thermochemical mantle convection

(2015) Xi Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Compositional mantle layering revealed by slab stagnation at  1000-km depth

(2015) M. D. Ballmer et al.   Science Advances

Effects of lateral viscosity variations on the geoid

(2010) A. Ghosh et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Importance of crustal corrections in the development of a new global model of radial anisotropy

(2010) M. P. Panning et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Global electromagnetic induction constraints on transition-zone water content variations

(2009) Anna Kelbert et al.   NATURE