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• Oceanic plateau of the Hawaiian mantle plume head subducted to the uppermost lower mantle
• Extrinsic Elastic Anisotropy in a Compositionally Heterogeneous Earth's Mantle
• Petrological interpretation of deep crustal intrusive bodies beneath oceanic hotspot provinces
• Energetics, equation of state, and elasticity of NAL phase: Potential host for alkali and aluminum in the lower mantle
• Geophysics of Chemical Heterogeneity in the Mantle
• Thermodynamics of mantle minerals - II. Phase equilibria
• Thermodynamics of the Earth's Mantle
• Estimates of the transition zone temperature in a mechanically mixed upper mantle
• Inferring the thermochemical structure of the upper mantle from seismic data
• Joint mineral physics and seismic wave traveltime analysis of upper mantle temperature
• The effect of bulk composition and temperature on mantle seismic structure
• Correlation of seismic and petrologic thermometers suggests deep thermal anomalies beneath hotspots
• Influence of phase transformations on lateral heterogeneity and dynamics in Earth's mantle
• Phase stability and shear softening in CaSiO3 perovskite at high pressure
• Mineralogy and elasticity of the oceanic upper mantle: Origin of the low-velocity zone
• Thermodynamics of mantle minerals - I. Physical properties