Granitic rocks play special role in the dynamics and evolution of the Earth and its thermal
regime. First, their compositional variability, reflected in the distribution of concentrations of …

We study segregation of the subducted oceanic crust (OC) at the core‐mantle boundary and
its ability to accumulate and form large thermochemical piles (such as the seismically …

Turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection in spherical shells Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2015), vol.
778, pp. 721–764. c Cambridge University Press 2015 doi:10.1017/jfm.2015.401 721 …

The origin of the ancient martian crustal dichotomy and the massive magmatic province of
Tharsis remains an open problem. Here, we explore numerically a hypothesis for the origin …

Many objects in the solar system are suspected to have experienced reorientation of their
spin axes. As their rotation rates are slow and their shapes are nearly spherical, the …

The surface of Ariel displays regions that were resurfaced in the geologically recent past.
Some of these regions include large chasmata that exhibit evidence for flexure. To estimate …

Several lines of evidence suggest that the velocity amplitude in global simulations of solar
convection, U, may be systematically over-estimated. Motivated by these recent results, we …

The mantle of the Earth, and probably of other terrestrial planets as well, is heated from
below and within. The heating mode of mantle convection is thus mixed heating, and it is …

The scaling of plate tectonic convection is investigated by simulating thermal convection with
pseudoplastic rheology and strongly temperature‐dependent viscosity. The effect of mantle …

Two-dimensional thermo-chemical mantle convection simulations are used to investigate
the influence of melting-inducted differentiation on the thermal evolution of Earth's mantle …