Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

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Global adjoint tomography: first-generation model (2016, methodology): “…Fichtner et al. (2009, 2013) prefer to fit a long-wavelength equivalent of the crustal signal and update the crust separately using a Backus-averaging technique (Backus 1962), and Lekić & Romanowicz (2011) and French & Romanowicz (2014) follow a similar approach (Capdeville & Marigo 2007).”
Persistence of strong silica-enriched domains in the Earth’s lower mantle (2016, background): “An initial global lower-mantle SiO2-enrichment compatible with our model starting conditions could arise due to (1) incomplete equilibration of the proto-mantle during multi-stage core formation(41), (2) fractionation during magma-ocean crystallization(42), and/or (3) continental extraction that lea”