Constraints on thermochemical convection of the mantle from plume heat flux, plume excess temperature, and upper mantle temperature

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Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle (2008, methodology): “…(6–12 TW from the expected thermal structure around the core-mantle boundary [Buffett, 2003]) or much higher (9–12 TW based on the postperovskite phase transition [Hernlund et al., 2005], 13 TW based on numerical simulation [Zhong, 2006], and 10– 30 TW from seismic tomography [Nolet et al., 2006]).”
Core–mantle boundary heat flow (2008, background): “Plume buoyancy flux in the deep mantle is likely to be larger than in the upper mantle owing to the effect of an expected subadiabatic thermal gradient within the convecting mantl”
Thermal versus elastic heterogeneity in high‐resolution mantle circulation models with pyrolite composition: High plume excess temperatures in the lowermost mantle (2009, background): “[6] Mantle nonadiabaticity points to a strong thermal gradient and a correspondingly high heat flux across the CMB [Bunge, 2005; Mittelstaedt and Tackley, 2006; Zhong, 2006; Lay, 2008], as large as 30 percent ( 10 TW) of the total mantle heat loss.”