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Figure 4. Calculated structure of mantle convection with upper mantle viscosity $10^{20}$ Pa s and lower mantle viscosity $10^{22}$ Pa s. Dimensionless temperature is shown in color and velocities are shown by arrows. Viscosity jumps at the base of highly viscous continent and at the boundary of the upper and lower mantle are shown by white lines. (a) – convection with a supercontinent at the time of inclusion of the spherical $D"$ layer. (b), (c), and (d) – convection with a supercontinent and viscosity jumps 4%, 20%, and 7%, respectively.

 
Citation: Trubitsyn V. P., M. N. Evseev, A. P. Trubitsyn (2015), Influence of continents and lithospheric plates on the shape of D$''$ layer and the spatial distribution of mantle plumes, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 15, ES3001, doi:10.2205/2015ES000552.
 

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