Composition and state of the core

K Hirose, S Labrosse, J Hernlund - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The composition and state of Earth's core, located deeper than 2,900 km from the surface,
remain largely uncertain. Recent static experiments on iron and alloys performed up to inner …

Core–mantle boundary heat flow

T Lay, J Hernlund, BA Buffett - Nature geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
The Earth can be viewed as a massive heat engine, with various energy sources and sinks.
Insights into its evolution can be obtained by quantifying the various energy contributions in …

Plume generation zones at the margins of large low shear velocity provinces on the core–mantle boundary

K Burke, B Steinberger, TH Torsvik… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Large Igneous Province (LIP) eruption sites of the past 300 My lie vertically above 1% slow
shear wave velocity (Vs) contours bounding the African and Pacific Large Low Shear …

Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle

J Korenaga - Reviews of Geophysics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Urey ratio describes the contribution of internal heat production to planetary‐scale
energy balance, and knowing this thermal budget for Earth is essential to understand its …

Possible links between long-term geomagnetic variations and whole-mantle convection processes

AJ Biggin, B Steinberger, J Aubert, N Suttie… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The Earth's internal magnetic field varies on timescales of months to billions of years. The
field is generated by convection in the liquid outer core, which in turn is influenced by the …

A geophysical perspective on the bulk composition of Mars

A Khan, C Liebske, A Rozel, A Rivoldini… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We invert the Martian tidal response and mean mass and moment of inertia for chemical
composition, thermal state, and interior structure. The inversion combines phase equilibrium …

Modelling the palaeo-evolution of the geodynamo

J Aubert, S Labrosse, C Poitou - Geophysical Journal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Although it is known that the geodynamo has been operating for at least 3.2 Ga, it remains
difficult to infer the intensity, dipolarity and stability (occurrence of reversals) of the …

Simulating the thermochemical magmatic and tectonic evolution of Venus's mantle and lithosphere: Two‐dimensional models

M Armann, PJ Tackley - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Numerical convection models of the thermochemical evolution of Venus are compared to
present‐day topography and geoid and recent resurfacing history. The models include …

A geodynamic model of plumes from the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces

B Steinberger, TH Torsvik - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present geodynamic models featuring mantle plumes that are almost exclusively created
at the margins of large thermo‐chemical piles in the lowermost mantle. The models are …

Deflating the LLSVPs: bundles of mantle thermochemical plumes rather than thick stagnant “piles”

A Davaille, B Romanowicz - Tectonics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Based on SEMUCB‐WM1 tomographic model, validated by other recent models, and fluid
mechanics constraints, we show that the large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) …