The existence of mantle plumes was first proposed in the 1970s to explain intra-plate,
hotspot volcanism, yet owing to difficulties in resolving mantle upwellings with geophysical …

The topography of Earth is primarily controlled by lateral differences in the density structure
of the crust and lithosphere. In addition to this isostatic topography, flow in the mantle …

This review provides a synopsis of ongoing research and our understanding of the
fundamentals of sea-level change today and in the geologic record, especially as illustrated …

Plate tectonic theory suggests that present-day topography can be explained by the
repeated interactions between the tectonic plates moving along Earth's surface. However …

Traditional inversion techniques applied to the problem of characterizing the thermal and
compositional structure of the upper mantle are not well suited to deal with the nonlinearity …

Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

During the past five decades, numerical modeling of subduction, one of the most
challenging and captivating geodynamic processes, remained in the core of geodynamic …

Because it lies at the intersection of Earth's solid, liquid, and gaseous components, sea level
links the dynamics of the fluid part of the planet with those of the solid part of the planet …

Earth's surface topography is a direct physical expression of our planet's dynamics. Most is
isostatic, controlled by thickness and density variations within the crust and lithosphere, but …

A review of short-term (< 3 myr: c. 100 kyr to 2.4 myr) Cretaceous sea-level fluctuations of
several tens of metres indicates recent fundamental progress in understanding the …