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Seismic tomography has illustrated convincingly the whole-mantle nature of mantle convection, and the lower mantle origin of the African and Pacific superplumes. However, questions remain regarding how tectonic plates, mantle superplumes and the convective mantle interplay with each other. Is the formation of mantle superplumes related to plate dynamics? Are mantle plumes and superplumes fixed relative...
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