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How to assess similarities and differences between mantle circulation models and Earth using disparate independent observations
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Mantle circulation in the Earth acts to remove heat from its interior and is thus a critical driver of our planet’s internal and surface evolution. Numerical mantle circulation models (MCMs) driven by plate motion history allow us to model relevant physical and chemical processes and help answer questions related to mantle properties and circulation. Predictions from MCMs can be tested using a variety of observations.
Here, we illustrate how the combination of many disparate observations leads to constraints on mantle circulation across space and time. We present this approach by first describing the setup of the example test MCM, including the parameterisation of melting, and the methodology used to obtain elastic Earth models. We subsequently describe different constraints, that either provide information about present-day mantle (e.g. seismic velocity structure and surface deflection) or its temporal evolution (e.g. geomagnetic reversal frequency, geochemical isotope ratios and temperature of upper mantle sampled by lavas). We illustrate the information that each observation provides by applying it to a single MCM. In future work, we will apply these observational constraints to a large number of MCMs, which will allow us to address questions related to Earth-like mantle circulation.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1098/rspa.2024.0827
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/02b5d8509
- Grant:
- RG.EVEA.118378
- NE/T012684/1
- Publisher:
- Royal Society
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences More from this journal
- Volume:
- 481
- Article number:
- 20240827
- Publication date:
- 2025-06-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2025-05-09
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1471-2946
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1364-5021
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English
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2123055
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pubs:2123055
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2025-05-12
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- Davies et al
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- 2025
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- © 2025 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- The author accepted manuscript (AAM) of this paper has been made available under the University of Oxford's Open Access Publications Policy, and a CC BY public copyright licence has been applied.
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