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Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

S. W. French, Barbara Romanowicz

Nature · 2015 · 914 citations · 49 references

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Convection Plumes in the Lower Mantle

W. Jason Morgan · Nature · 1971 · 2.5K citations

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The spectral element method: An efficient tool to simulate the seismic response of 2D and 3D geological structures

Dimitri Komatitsch, Jean‐Pierre Vilotte · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1998 · 1.4K citations

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Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts

I. H. Campbell, R. W. Griffiths · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1990 · 1.2K citations

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S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function measurements

Jeroen Ritsema, Arwen Deuss, H. J. van Heijst et al. · Geophysical Journal International · 2010 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Three distinct types of hotspots in the Earth’s mantle

Vincent Courtillot, Anne Davaille, Jean Besse et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2003 · 1.1K citations

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