Effects of heat-producing elements on the long-term evolution of thermochemical piles at the base of the mantle
Robert I Citron1, Ma. Teresa Escobar2, Antoniette Greta Grima3, Xiaobao Lin4, Diogo José Louro Lourenço5, Alfred Wilson6, Scott Alan Wipperfurth7, Jun Yan8, Sanne Cottaar9, Laurent Montesi7, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay10, Rita Parai11 and Maxwell L Rudolph12, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Geophysics, Austin, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (6)University College London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (7)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, (8)ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (9)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (10)Arizona State University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, (11)Washington University in St Louis, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, (12)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States