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The bathymetry of the oceans and other observations require mantle convection to comprise a plate-scale flow which penetrates deep into the mantle and plumes rising from great depth. Material injected into this regime can persist for billions of years before being sampled at a spreading center or a hotspot.
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Davies, G.F. (1989). The Structure of Mantle Flow and the Stirring and Persistence of Chemical Heterogeneities. In: Hart, S.R., Gülen, L. (eds) Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones. NATO ASI Series, vol 258. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0895-6_24
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