February 2016

A viscosity jump detected in the Earth’s mid mantle

Together with collaborators Max Rudolph at Portland State University and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni at University College London, we used a novel inversion framework to detect the presence of an increase in viscosity in the Earth’s mid mantle. As Science magazine put it: A mysterious mid-mantle slowdown The viscosity of Earth’s deep interior plays a key role

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