Earth interior model
Simplified model of the Earth’s interior and its global dynamics featuring a solid inner and a fluid outer core, a viscous partially molten but not fluid mantle, and characteristic surface topography.
Simplified model of the Earth’s interior and its global dynamics featuring a solid inner and a fluid outer core, a viscous partially molten but not fluid mantle, and characteristic surface topography.
Comparison of suggested mantle convection in the Earth (mobile-lid mode) and Venus (inefficient short slab mode).
Illustration of constraints on subduction zone seismic anisotropy from a global compilation of shear-wave splitting measurements.
Temporal evolution of a global, fully spherical, 3D model of whole-mantle convection.
Illustrative vertical cross-section showing the oceanic plate as part of whole-mantle convection.