ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Upward mantle flow from novel seismic observations
While downward mantle flow (subduction) is well constrained, a grand challenge in Earth sciences is to understand deep upward flow that cannot be explained by plate tectonics. The aim of UPFLOW is to develop an entirely new seismic imaging approach and to use it to constrain plume-like mantle upwellings at unprecendented resolution. Upward flow is critical for continental growth, for returning volatiles to the atmosphere and for producing Earth's largest melting events. These events coincide with major extinctions, supercontinent breakups and with changes in geodynamo behaviour. Seismology has come far by using travel-time and waveform (phase) information but has mostly ignored the…
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