Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes

AAP Koppers, TW Becker, MG Jackson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
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 dynamics of Cenozoic and Mesozoic plate motions

C Lithgow‐Bertelloni, MA Richards - Reviews of Geophysics, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the dynamics of plate motions is based almost entirely upon modeling
of present‐day plate motions. A fuller understanding, however, can be derived from …

Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

K Lambeck, H Rouby, A Purcell… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The major cause of sea-level change during ice ages is the exchange of water between ice
and ocean and the planet's dynamic response to the changing surface load. Inversion of∼ …

A new inference of mantle viscosity based upon joint inversion of convection and glacial isostatic adjustment data

JX Mitrovica, AM Forte - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2004 - Elsevier
We present new profiles of mantle viscosity derived on the basis of non-linear, Occam-style
joint inversions of an extensive set of data associated with mantle convection and glacial …

Viscosity jump in Earth's mid-mantle

ML Rudolph, V Lekić, C Lithgow-Bertelloni - Science, 2015 - science.org
The viscosity structure of Earth's deep mantle affects the thermal evolution of Earth, the
ascent of mantle plumes, settling of subducted oceanic lithosphere, and the mixing of …

Postglacial variations in the level of the sea: Implications for climate dynamics and solid‐earth geophysics

WR Peltier - Reviews of geophysics, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout the latter half of the Pleistocene epoch of Earth history, beginning∼ 900 kyr ago,
the climate system has been dominated by an intense oscillation between full glacial and …

On the uncertainties in hot spot reconstructions and the significance of moving hot spot reference frames

C O'Neill, D Müller, B Steinberger - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely accepted that substantial relative motion has occurred between the Indo‐Atlantic
and Pacific hot spots since the Late Cretaceous. At the same time, a fixed Indo‐Atlantic hot …

Deep-mantle high-viscosity flow and thermochemical structure inferred from seismic and geodynamic data

AM Forte, JX Mitrovica - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Surface geophysical data that are related to the process of thermal convection in the Earth's
mantle provide constraints on the rheological properties and density structure of the mantle …

Dynamics of retreating slabs: 2. Insights from three‐dimensional laboratory experiments

F Funiciello, C Faccenna, D Giardini… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A laboratory analogue of a three‐layer linear viscous slab‐upper mantle‐lower mantle
system is established in a silicone putty, honey and crystallized honey tank experiment. The …

Radial profile of mantle viscosity: Results from the joint inversion of convection and postglacial rebound observables

JX Mitrovica, AM Forte - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We present new inferences of the radial profile of mantle viscosity that simultaneously fit
long‐wavelength free‐air gravity harmonics associated with mantle convection and a large …