Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics - Yuen, David A.; Maruyama, Shigenori; Karato, Shun-ichiro.; Windley, Brian F.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
The Thermal and Compositional Structure of the Earth -- Multiscale Seismic Tomography of Mantle Plumes and Subducting Slabs -- Seismological Constraints on the Structure of the Earth's Core -- Post-Perovskite Phase Transition and the Nature of the D? Layer -- Post-Perovskite MgSiO3 Investigated by First Principles -- Seismological Evidence and Boundary Layers in the Mantle -- Subduction Zone: The Water Channel to the Mantle -- Fine-Scale Ultra-Low Velocity Zone Layering at the Core-Mantle Boundary and Superplumes -- Global Material Circulation and Petrogenesis of Superplume Rocks -- A Geochemical and Petrological View of Mantle Plume -- Material Circulation through Time: Chemical Differentiation Within the Mantle and Secular Variation of Temperature and Composition of the Mantle -- Dynamics of Superplumes -- Dynamics of Superplumes in the Lower Mantle -- Thermal Conductivity of the Earth's Deepest Mantle -- Thermo-Chemical Structure of the Lower Mantle: Seismological Evidence and Consequences for Geodynamics -- Microscopic Models for the Effects of Hydrogen on Physical and Chemical Properties of Earth Materials -- Plume Dynamics through Earth History -- History of the Pacific Superplume: Implications for Pacific Paleogeography Since the Late Proterozoic -- Plume Winter Scenario for Biosphere Catastrophe: The Permo-Triassic Boundary Case -- Dynamics of Plumes and Superplumes through Time -- Plumes and Superplumes on Mars and Venus -- Tharsis Superplume and the Geological Evolution of Early Mars -- Traits and Evolution of the Tharsis Superplume, Mars -- Plumes and Plume Clusters on Earth and Venus: Evidence from Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs).
Keywords: Geophysics; Mineralogy; Geochemistry; Planetology; Historical geology; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Mineralogy; Geochemistry; Planetology; Historical Geology