Geochemical Constraints on the Structure of the Earth's Deep Mantle and the Origin of the LLSVPs

Do olivine crystallization temperatures faithfully record mantle temperature variability?

(2021) Simon Matthews et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Velocity and density characteristics of subducted oceanic crust and the origin of lower-mantle heterogeneities

(2020) Wenzhong Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Novel insights from Fe-isotopes into the lithological heterogeneity of Ocean Island Basalts and plume-influenced MORBs

(2020) Matthew L.M. Gleeson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geochemistry of Etendeka magmatism: Spatial heterogeneity in the Tristan-Gough plume head

(2020) H. Zhou et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

How thermochemical piles can (periodically) generate plumes at their edges

(2020) Björn H. Heyn et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Insights into the Origins and Compositions of Mantle Plumes: A Comparison of Galápagos and Hawai'i

(2020) K. S. Harpp et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Upper mantle mush zones beneath low melt flux ocean island volcanoes: insights from Isla Floreana, Galápagos

(2020) Matthew L M Gleeson et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Deflating the LLSVPs: Bundles of Mantle Thermochemical Plumes Rather Than Thick Stagnant “Piles”

(2020) Anne Davaille et al.   TECTONICS

Imaging the Galápagos mantle plume with an unconventional application of floating seismometers

(2019) Guust Nolet et al.   Scientific Reports

Crustal controls on apparent mantle pyroxenite signals in ocean-island basalts

(2019) Matthew L.M. Gleeson et al.   GEOLOGY

Crystal scavenging from mush piles recorded by melt inclusions

(2019) Penny E. Wieser et al.   Nature Communications

Melting of peridotites through to granites: a simple thermodynamic model in the system KNCFMASHTOCr

(2018) Tim J B Holland et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Hadean silicate differentiation preserved by anomalous 142Nd/144Nd ratios in the Réunion hotspot source

(2018) Bradley J. Peters et al.   NATURE

Chemical trends in ocean islands explained by plume–slab interaction

(2018) Juliane Dannberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Origin of the LLSVPs at the base of the mantle is a consequence of plate tectonics – A petrological and geochemical perspective

(2018) Yaoling Niu   Geoscience Frontiers

Delivery of deep-sourced, volatile-rich plume material to the global ridge system

(2018) Sally A. Gibson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Dynamics of rheological heterogeneities in mantle plumes

(2018) Cinzia G. Farnetani et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Limited true polar wander as evidence that Earth's nonhydrostatic shape is persistently triaxial

(2017) Bernhard Steinberger et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Tidal tomography constrains Earth’s deep-mantle buoyancy

(2017) Harriet C. P. Lau et al.   NATURE

The roles of pyroxenite and peridotite in the mantle sources of oceanic basalts

(2017) Andrew K. Matzen et al.   Nature Geoscience

On the consistency of seismically imaged lower mantle slabs

(2017) G. E. Shephard et al.   Scientific Reports

The effect of liquid composition on the partitioning of Ni between olivine and silicate melt

(2016) Andrew K. Matzen et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

The influence of melt flux and crustal processing on Re–Os isotope systematics of ocean island basalts: Constraints from Galápagos

(2016) S.A. Gibson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A failure to reject: Testing the correlation between large igneous provinces and deep mantle structures with EDF statistics

(2016) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Morphology of seismically slow lower-mantle structures

(2016) Sanne Cottaar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Continent-sized anomalous zones with low seismic velocity at the base of Earth's mantle

(2016) Edward J. Garnero et al.   Nature Geoscience

The relationships between large-scale variations in shear velocity, density, and compressional velocity in the Earth's mantle

(2016) P. Moulik et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

The role of pyroxenite in basalt genesis: Melt-PX, a melting parameterization for mantle pyroxenites between 0.9 and 5 GPa

(2016) Sarah Lambart et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Recycled crust in the Galápagos Plume source at 70 Ma: Implications for plume evolution

(2015) Jarek Trela et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle plume capture, anchoring, and outflow during Galápagos plume-ridge interaction

(2015) S. A. Gibson et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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

(2015) Scott W. French et al.   NATURE

How and when plume zonation appeared during the 132 Myr evolution of the Tristan Hotspot

(2015) Kaj Hoernle et al.   Nature Communications

The P-wave boundary of the Large-Low Shear Velocity Province beneath the Pacific

(2014) Daniel A. Frost et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Quantifying lithological variability in the mantle

(2014) Oliver Shorttle et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Phantom Archean crust in Mangaia hotspot lavas and the meaning of heterogeneous mantle

(2014) C. Herzberg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle flow and multistage melting beneath the Galápagos hotspot revealed by seismic imaging

(2014) Darwin R. Villagómez et al.   Nature Geoscience

Chemical complexity of hotspots caused by cycling oceanic crust through mantle reservoirs

(2014) Mingming Li et al.   Nature Geoscience

Continuous eclogite melting and variable refertilisation in upwelling heterogeneous mantle

(2014) Anja Rosenthal et al.   Scientific Reports

Receiver function imaging of lithospheric structure and the onset of melting beneath the Galápagos Archipelago

(2013) Catherine A. Rychert et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lithological structure of the Galápagos Plume

(2013) Christopher Vidito et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The Temperature and Pressure Dependence of Nickel Partitioning between Olivine and Silicate Melt

(2013) Andrew K. Matzen et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

A composite, isotopically-depleted peridotite and enriched pyroxenite source for Madeira magmas: Insights from olivine

(2013) Andrey A. Gurenko et al.   LITHOS

Reaction between MORB-eclogite derived melts and fertile peridotite and generation of ocean island basalts

(2012) Ananya Mallik 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

Short wavelength heterogeneity in the Galápagos plume: Evidence from compositionally diverse basalts on Isla Santiago

(2012) S. A. Gibson et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Fate of Pyroxenite-derived Melts in the Peridotitic Mantle: Thermodynamic and Experimental Constraints

(2012) S. Lambart et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Markers of the pyroxenite contribution in the major-element compositions of oceanic basalts: Review of the experimental constraints

(2012) Sarah Lambart et al.   LITHOS

Compositional trends of Icelandic basalts: Implications for short-length scale lithological heterogeneity in mantle plumes

(2011) O. Shorttle et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Geologically current motion of 56 plates relative to the no-net-rotation reference frame

(2011) Donald F. Argus et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

An improved and extended internally consistent thermodynamic dataset for phases of petrological interest, involving a new equation of state for solids

(2011) T. J. B. HOLLAND et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Role of the deep mantle in generating the compositional asymmetry of the Hawaiian mantle plume

(2011) Dominique Weis et al.   Nature Geoscience

Geochemical zoning of volcanic chains associated with Pacific hotspots

(2011) Shichun Huang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Geochemical and geophysical estimates of lithospheric thickness variation beneath Galápagos

(2010) S.A. Gibson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mechanisms of geochemical and geophysical variations along the western Galápagos Spreading Center

(2010) Stephanie Ingle et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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

Identification of Source Lithology in the Hawaiian and Canary Islands: Implications for Origins

(2010) Claude Herzberg   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Evidence for the survival of the oldest terrestrial mantle reservoir

(2010) Matthew G. Jackson et al.   NATURE

Major element chemistry of ocean island basalts — Conditions of mantle melting and heterogeneity of mantle source

(2009) Rajdeep Dasgupta et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Enriched, HIMU-type peridotite and depleted recycled pyroxenite in the Canary plume: A mixed-up mantle

(2008) Andrey A. Gurenko et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Petrology of some oceanic island basalts: PRIMELT2.XLS software for primary magma calculation

(2008) C. Herzberg et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS