Thermal versus elastic heterogeneity in high‐resolution mantle circulation models with pyrolite composition: High plume excess temperatures in the lowermost mantle

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Morphology of seismically slow lower-mantle structures (2016, background): “Some studies suggest LLSVPs have a purely thermal origin and represent clusters of thermal plumes that look like continuous structures when seen through the lens of seismic tomography (Schuberth et al. 2009; Davies et al. 2012).”
The influence of MORB and harzburgite composition on thermo-chemical mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell with self-consistently calculated mineral physics (2010, background): “However, some amount of compositional variation is still required, because although some features can be matched by purely thermal models (Schuberth et al., 2009), compositional variations are required to match the anti-correlation of shear and bulk sound wave velocities (Trampert et al., 2004;…”
Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: The dominant role of thermal heterogeneity (2012, background): “…a large contributor to such discrepancies and, hence, comparisons between model predictions and tomography without application of such a resolution operator can be misleading (e.g. Mégnin et al., 1997; Davies and Bunge, 2001; Ritsema et al., 2007; Bull et al., 2009; Schuberth et al., 2009a).”