The influence of MORB and harzburgite composition on thermo-chemical mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell with self-consistently calculated mineral physics

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Geophysics of Chemical Heterogeneity in the Mantle (2012, background): “Dynamical models show substantial accumulation at the base of the mantle for a density contrast of 1% (Christensen & Hofmann 1994, Davies 2009b, Nakagawa et al. 2010).”
The primitive nature of large low shear-wave velocity provinces (2012, background): “More recent models pointed out that the shape and stability of the reservoirs of MORB depend on the assumed composition of MORB in main oxides (Nakagawa et al., 2010).”
Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: The dominant role of thermal heterogeneity (2012, background): “A range of basaltic compositions have been proposed (e.g. Irifune and Ringwood, 1993; Ricolleau et al., 2010; Nakagawa et al., 2010), but all have significant proportions of calcium-perovskite and stishovite, when compared to a pyrolite.”
Dynamics and evolution of the deep mantle resulting from thermal, chemical, phase and melting effects (2012, background): “D spherical (Huang and Davies, 2007; Nakagawa et al., 2009, 2010) geometries.”