Seismic tomography has illustrated convincingly the whole-mantle nature of mantle
convection, and the lower mantle origin of the African and Pacific superplumes. However …

The concept of interplay between mantle convection and tectonics goes back to about a
century ago, with the proposal that convection currents in the Earth's mantle drive …

Today's geodynamic models can, often do and sometimes have to become very complex.
Their underlying, increasingly elaborate numerical codes produce a growing amount of raw …

Slab edges are a relatively common feature in plate tectonics. Two prominent examples are
the northern end of the Tonga subduction zone and the southern end of the New Hebrides …

Layered viscosity, temperature‐dependent viscosity, and surface plates have an important
effect on the scale and morphology of structure in spherical models of mantle convection …

The initiation of plate tectonics on Earth is a critical event in our planet's history. The time lag
between the first proto-subduction (about 4 billion years ago) and global tectonics …

Presented here are self‐consistent, three‐dimensional simulations of mantle convection,
some of which display an approximation of plate tectonic behavior that is continuous in …

We present a new algorithm for modeling a self-consistent set of global plate polygons. Each
plate polygon is composed of a finite list of plate margins, all with different Euler poles. We …

Plate tectonics is regulated by driving and resisting forces concentrated at plate boundaries,
but observationally constrained high-resolution models of global mantle flow remain a …

As high‐performance computing facilities and sophisticated modeling software become
available, modeling mantle convection in a three‐dimensional (3‐D) spherical shell …