As subducting plates reach the base of the upper mantle, some appear to flatten and
stagnate, while others seemingly go through unimpeded. This variable resistance to slab …

The geodynamic significance of continental volcanoes located far from the plate boundaries
remains highly controversial as exemplified by contrasting models that favor either a deep …

Improved constraints on lower-mantle composition are fundamental to understand the
accretion, differentiation, and thermochemical evolution of our planet. Cosmochemical …

With changing pressure and temperature conditions, downwelling and upwelling crustal and
mantle rocks experience several solid–solid phase transitions that affect the mineral …

A better understanding of the Earth's compositional structure is needed to place the
geochemical record of surface rocks into the context of Earth accretion and evolution …

Although the deep recycling of carbon has been proposed to play a key role in producing
intraplate magmatism, the question of how it controls or triggers mantle melting remains …

In this review we focus on the volcanism, that occurred in Transbaikalia, Siberia after the
closure of the Mongolia-Okhotsk Ocean. The closure happened in the Early Jurassic. After …

We present a full‐waveform tomographic model of the crust and upper mantle beneath the
Japanese Islands region. This is based on the combination of GPU‐accelerated spectral …

The large low shear‐wave velocity provinces (LLSVP) are thermochemical anomalies in the
deep Earth's mantle, thousands of km wide and∼ 1800 km high. This study explores the …

Subducted plates often stagnate in the mantle transition zone (MTZ), and the fate of the
stagnant slabs is still debatable. They may sink into the lower mantle, or remain partially …