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DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY

The deep roots of Earth’s surface

The structure of the lithosphere is key to reconciling the dynamic topography predicted by mantle convection models with residual topography derived from observations, suggest analyses of both models and data.

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Fig. 1: Evolution of the understanding of the amplitude of long-wavelength dynamic topography.

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Flament, N. The deep roots of Earth’s surface. Nat. Geosci. 12, 787–788 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0447-y

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