Persistence of strong silica-enriched domains in the Earth’s lower mantle

Is the mantle chemically stratified? Insights from sound velocity modeling and isotope evolution of an early magma ocean

(2016) Eugenia Hyung et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Compositional layering within the large low shear-wave velocity provinces in the lower mantle

(2016) Maxim D. Ballmer et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Morphology of seismically slow lower-mantle structures

(2016) Sanne Cottaar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Mantle dynamics inferred from the crystallographic preferred orientation of bridgmanite

(2016) Noriyoshi Tsujino et al.   NATURE

Chondritic xenon in the Earth’s mantle

(2016) Antonio Caracausi et al.   NATURE

Preservation of Earth-forming events in the tungsten isotopic composition of modern flood basalts

(2016) H. Rizo et al.   SCIENCE

Upper- and mid-mantle interaction between the Samoan plume and the Tonga–Kermadec slabs

(2016) Sung-Joon Chang et al.   Nature Communications

Stability of Fe,Al-bearing bridgmanite in the lower mantle and synthesis of pure Fe-bridgmanite

(2016) L. Ismailova et al.   Science Advances

Oceanic lavas sampling the high-3He/4He mantle reservoir: Primitive, depleted, or re-enriched?

(2015) Gordana Garapić et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Isotopes, DUPAL, LLSVPs, and Anekantavada

(2015) William M. White   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Thermoelasticity of Fe2+ -bearing bridgmanite

(2015) Gaurav Shukla et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

(2015) Scott W. French et al.   NATURE

Computational support for a pyrolitic lower mantle containing ferric iron

(2015) Xianlong Wang et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Shear deformation of bridgmanite and magnesiowustite aggregates at lower mantle conditions

(2015) J. Girard et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

A seismologically consistent compositional model of Earth's core

(2014) J. Badro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low Core-Mantle Boundary Temperature Inferred from the Solidus of Pyrolite

(2014) R. Nomura et al.   SCIENCE

P-V-Tequation of state of cubic CaSiO3perovskite from first-principles computation

(2014) Kenji Kawai et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

A two-stage scenario for the formation of the Earth's mantle and core

(2013) Edouard Kaminski et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Iceland–Jan Mayen plume system and its impact on mantle dynamics in the North Atlantic region: Evidence from full-waveform inversion

(2013) Florian Rickers et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Stability of active mantle upwelling revealed by net characteristics of plate tectonics

(2013) Clinton P. Conrad et al.   NATURE

Elastic Anomalies in a Spin-Crossover System: Ferropericlase at Lower Mantle Conditions

(2013) Zhongqing Wu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

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

Cluster analysis of global lower mantle tomography: A new class of structure and implications for chemical heterogeneity

(2012) Vedran Lekic et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The primitive nature of large low shear-wave velocity provinces

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

A perovskitic lower mantle inferred from high-pressure, high-temperature sound velocity data

(2012) Motohiko Murakami et al.   NATURE

Early differentiation and volatile accretion recorded in deep-mantle neon and xenon

(2012) Sujoy Mukhopadhyay   NATURE

Mountain building and mantle dynamics

(2012) Claudio Faccenna et al.   TECTONICS

Mantle conveyor beneath the Tethyan collisional belt

(2011) Thorsten W. Becker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle Anchor Structure: An argument for bottom up tectonics

(2010) Adam M. Dziewonski et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   NATURE

Low-viscosity mantle blobs are sampled preferentially at regions of surface divergence and stirred rapidly into the mantle

(2010) Michael Manga   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Intraplate volcanism with complex age-distance patterns: A case for small-scale sublithospheric convection

(2009) M. D. Ballmer et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle slab remnants

(2009) Douwe G. van der Meer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Anomalous thermodynamic properties in ferropericlase throughout its spin crossover

(2009) Z. Wu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

The relative wavelengths of fast and slow velocity anomalies in the lower mantle: Contrary to the expectations of dynamics?

(2009) Christine Houser et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Iron Partitioning and Density Changes of Pyrolite in Earth's Lower Mantle

(2009) T. Irifune et al.   SCIENCE

Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars

(2008) L.T. Elkins-Tanton   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

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

Core–mantle boundary heat flow

(2007) Thorne Lay et al.   Nature Geoscience