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

Seismic evidence for a chemically distinct thermochemical reservoir in Earth's deep mantle beneath Hawaii

(2015) Chunpeng Zhao et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

On the relationship between volcanic hotspot locations, the reconstructed eruption sites of large igneous provinces and deep mantle seismic structure

(2015) D.R. Davies et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

SP12RTS: a degree-12 model of shear- and compressional-wave velocity for Earth's mantle

(2015) P. Koelemeijer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Small shear modulus of cubic CaSiO3 perovskite

(2015) Kenji Kawai 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

Episodic entrainment of deep primordial mantle material into ocean island basalts

(2015) Curtis D. Williams et al.   Nature Communications

Survival of LLSVPs for billions of years in a vigorously convecting mantle: Replenishment and destruction of chemical anomaly

(2015) Elvira Mulyukova et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

How Did Early Earth Become Our Modern World?

(2014) Richard W. Carlson et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

Stability of a hydrous δ-phase, AlOOH–MgSiO2(OH)2, and a mechanism for water transport into the base of lower mantle

(2014) Itaru Ohira et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lowermost mantle anisotropy and deformation along the boundary of the African LLSVP

(2014) Colton Lynner et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Stability of hydrous phase H MgSiO4 H2 under lower mantle conditions

(2014) Eiji Ohtani et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

(2014) Mingming Li et al.   Nature Geoscience

Stability of hydrous silicate at high pressures and water transport to the deep lower mantle

(2014) M. Nishi et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Melting of subducted basalt at the core-mantle boundary

(2014) D. Andrault et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) R. Nomura et al.   SCIENCE

Study of the western edge of the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province

(2013) Daoyuan Sun et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Constraints on core-mantle boundary topography from normal mode splitting

(2013) Gaia Soldati et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The origin of D″ reflections: a systematic study of seismic array data sets

(2013) Laura Cobden et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Detection of a tall ridge at the core–mantle boundary from scattered PKP energy

(2013) Daniel A. Frost et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

First principles prediction of a new high-pressure phase of dense hydrous magnesium silicates in the lower mantle

(2013) Jun Tsuchiya   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities

(2013) Tim E. Johnson et al.   Nature Geoscience

Stability, metastability, and elastic properties of a dense silica polymorph, seifertite

(2013) B. Grocholski et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: The dominant role of thermal heterogeneity

(2012) D. Rhodri Davies et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

How double volcanic chains sample geochemical anomalies from the lowermost mantle

(2012) Cinzia G. Farnetani et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

Parallel volcano trends and geochemical asymmetry of the Society Islands hotspot track

(2012) Jarod A. Payne et al.   GEOLOGY

Parameterized lifetime of radiation belt electrons interacting with lower-band and upper-band oblique chorus waves

(2012) Xudong Gu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Seismic and mineralogical structures of the lower mantle from probabilistic tomography

(2012) I. Mosca et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Solid–liquid iron partitioning in Earth’s deep mantle

(2012) Denis Andrault et al.   NATURE

Deep penetration of molten iron into the mantle caused by a morphological instability

(2012) Kazuhiko Otsuka et al.   NATURE

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

(2012) Sujoy Mukhopadhyay   NATURE

Mineralogical effects on the detectability of the postperovskite boundary

(2012) B. Grocholski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A geodynamic model of plumes from the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces

(2011) Bernhard Steinberger et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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

A deep mantle origin for the primitive signature of ocean island basalt

(2011) Frédéric Deschamps et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2011) Dominique Weis et al.   Nature Geoscience

The influence of MORB and harzburgite composition on thermo-chemical mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell with self-consistently calculated mineral physics

(2010) Takashi Nakagawa et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

Partitioning of oxygen between the Earth's mantle and core

(2010) Daniel J. Frost et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A model for the evolution of the Earth's mantle structure since the Early Paleozoic

(2010) Nan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

Melting of Peridotite to 140 Gigapascals

(2010) G. Fiquet et al.   SCIENCE

Synthetic tomography of plume clusters and thermochemical piles

(2009) A.L. Bull et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Core–mantle boundary topography as a possible constraint on lower mantle chemistry and dynamics

(2009) Teresa Mae Lassak et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

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

On the vertical extent of the large low shear velocity province beneath the South Pacific Superswell

(2009) S. Tanaka et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

(2009) T. Irifune et al.   SCIENCE

Novel high-pressure structures of MgCO3, CaCO3 and CO2 and their role in Earth's lower mantle

(2008) Artem R. Oganov et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Chemical equilibrium between ferropericlase and molten iron to 134 GPa and implications for iron content at the bottom of the mantle

(2008) Haruka Ozawa et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Fate of carbonates within oceanic plates subducted to the lower mantle, and a possible mechanism of diamond formation

(2008) Yusuke Seto et al.   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS

Effect of Fe on the equation of state of mantle silicate perovskite over 1Mbar

(2008) S. Lundin et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Lower Mantle

(2008) E. J. Garnero et al.   SCIENCE

Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core–mantle boundary

(2007) Kevin Burke et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS