The radial viscosity of the mantle is generally thought to increase by ∼10–100 times from upper lower with a putative, abrupt at 660 km depth. Recently, low channel (LVC) between and 1,000 has been suggested. We conduct series time-dependent flow models either increasing or decreasing depth while tracking slab structure, state-of-stress, geoid. find that LVC will amplitude long wavelength (>5,0...