Mantle Convection and Surface Expressions

The authors thank John Hernlund and Fred Richards for their reviews, which improved the quality and clarity of the manuscript. The authors thank Ebru Bozdağ for providing the GLAD‐M15 tomographic model and for helpful discussions about this model. All of the authors acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation through NSF Geophysics grant EAR‐1825104, and MLR acknowledges NSF CSEDI grant EAR‐1800450. Computational resources were provided through NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant DMS‐1624776 to Portland State University and by UC Davis. VL acknowledges support from the Packard Foundation.

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