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A dynamic model of Venus's gravity field [PDF]

Unlike Earth, long wavelength gravity anomalies and topography correlate well on Venus. Venus's admittance curve from spherical harmonic degree 2 to 18 is inconsistent with either Airy or Pratt isostasy, but is consistent with dynamic support from mantle
Bills, B. G., Hager, B. H., Kiefer, W. S., Richards, M. A.   +3 more
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East African topography and volcanism explained by a single, migrating plume [PDF]

, 2020
Anomalous topographic swells and Cenozoic volcanism in east Africa have been associated with mantle plumes. Several models involving one or more fixed plumes beneath the northeastward migrating African plate have been suggested to explain the space-time ...
Gurnis, Michael, Hassan, Rakib, Müller, Dietmar, Williams, Simon E.   +3 more
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Slab‐Mantle Interaction During Subduction Initiation: Constraints From Trace Element and Sr‐Nd‐Pb Isotope Systematics of Boninite and Other Magmas and Metamorphic Sole in the Oman Ophiolite

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract The Late Cretaceous Oman ophiolite includes a series of volcanic rocks generated during the transition from spreading ridge to protoarc associated with subduction initiation. We analyzed major and trace elements and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope compositions of lavas and dikes of the protoarc stage, especially boninites. We also analyzed amphibolites
Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Kazuya Nagaishi, Kyoko Kanayama, Keitaro Kitamura, Shigeyuki Wakaki, Yuki Kusano, Susumu Umino   +6 more
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Evolving mantle convection from bottom up to top down. [PDF]

Innovation (Camb), 2022
Mitchell RN, Brown M, Gernon TM, Spencer CJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mantle Transition Zone Topography in New Zealand From Teleseismic P $P$‐Wave Receiver Functions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract The geology of New Zealand has been shaped by tectonic plate interactions driven by mantle convection over the past 60 million years, but the effects of these interactions on the transition to the lower mantle are not yet well understood. We analyze 10 years of teleseismic P $P$‐wave receiver functions using common conversion point stacking to
Quan Zhang, Pascal Audet, Martha Savage, Rupert Sutherland, Tim Stern   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large‐Scale Flow Toward Low‐Velocity Anomalies Reconciles Seismic and Geodynamic Constraints in the Deepest Mantle Beneath Alaska

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Deep mantle downwellings are typically located away from the two Large Low‐Velocity Provinces (LLVPs) in Earth's mantle. Geodynamic models based on global seismic tomography generally predict that convective flow at the core‐mantle boundary spreads laterally away from downwelling regions and toward LLVPs.
Jonathan Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

GENETIC SOURCES AND TECTONOPHYSICAL REGULARITIES OF DIVISIBILITY OF THE LITHOSPHERE INTO BLOCKS OF VARIOUS RANKS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF ITS FORMATION: TECTONOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS

Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2015
The paper presents the first tectonophysical reconstruction of initial divisibility of the protolithosphere as a result of convection in the cooling primitive mantle. Initial division of the protolithosphere into separate masses, i.e.
Semen I. Sherman
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Origin of the Bulge Topography Within Caloris Basin, Mercury

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Caloris basin on Mercury has a massive circular bulge topography imprinted with unique fault sets. A variety of deformational processes have been proposed to have influenced their formation, including both global contraction and basin evolution, as well as the deposition and weight of the volcanic infill.
G. Schmidt, V. Galluzzi, A. Sepe, S. Buoninfante, B. De Toffoli, L. Ferranti, P. Palumbo   +6 more
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Heat and Tectonics of the Canadian Cordillera From the Seismically Constrained Inversion of Gravity Data

Tectonics, Volume 45, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract An updated approach to seismically constrained modeling of gravity data reveals two broad, NW‐trending low‐density zones in the mantle lithosphere beneath the Canadian Cordillera. The low‐density zones coincide with a shallow lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary (LAB), a shallow Curie‐point depth, and the location of Quaternary volcanoes.
Nathan Hayward, Tark S. Hamilton
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Secular Variation in the North American Kimberlite Formation: The Variable Connection to LLSVPs

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Kimberlites are rare and perplexing igneous rocks that may represent the deepest‐sourced melt type extracted from within the Earth's mantle, and their origin may be associated with Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs) along the core‐mantle ...
C. Adam, P. D. Kempton
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