Thermochemical maps reveal persistent stagnation of plumes and slabs in the mantle transition zone

Lauren Waszek, James Cook University, Physical Sciences Group, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Benoit Tauzin, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Maxim Ballmer, UCL, Dept. of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, Australia, Thomas Bodin, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Jun Yan, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland