The Earth's Mantle part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This illustration from Kellog, Hader, and van der Hilst (1999) shows their vision of a chemically stratified mantle perturbed by the downgoing subducted slabs of oceanic lithospere (blue).

Imagining Earth's Interior part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This image from the COMPRES galleries show a dozen conceptions of the structure of the deep earth. The composite image is by Ed Garnero.

Mantle Convection Cell part of SERC Web Resource Collection

An annotated illustration showing mantle convection and its relation to plate tectonics, from the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University.

MIT Geophysics Seminar on Mantle Convection part of SERC Web Resource Collection

MIT graduate geophysics course page including lecture notes and readings (.pdf) on a variety of topics related to mantle convection.

Dynamic Earth - Mantle Convection part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the University of Leeds gives an introduction to the drivers of plate tectonics, including links to illustrations depicting ridge push/ slab pull, ridge bathymetry, mantle tomographic ...

Mantle Dynamics Research at RSES part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the Australian National University includes discussions (with figures) of research on mantle fluid dynamics and mantle evolution.

Plumes or reheated slabs? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

A scientific discussion of the evolving conceptual model of mantle development, focusing on penetrative convection as an alternative hypothesis to plume convection.

Mantle Convection using Adaptive Mesh Refinement part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the University of Texas at Austin gives a snapshot and brief description of an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) global mantle convection simulation. Part of the TACC Scientific ...

Visualization of 3D Mantle Data part of SERC Web Resource Collection

A series of simulations from the Yuen Research group of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute at the University of Minnesota. There are three animations showing models of temperature and velocity ...

Leaky Layers part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Figure from the Nature Geoscience article, Geodynamics: Layer cake or plum pudding? by Paul Tackley (Nature Geoscience 1, 157 - 158 (2008)). The figure shows the current understanding of the ...