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Documentation of the evolution of the scientific methods in geophysics, that delves into the early and present-day states of the Earth and Earth's deep interior The increased synergy between seismology, geodynamics, mineral physics, and geochemistry and recent progress in these areas are providing new insights on Earth's remote interior. The coming together of these fields is classic convergence research in the context of Earth's Deep Interior. Novel seismology methods have contributed sharper images of plumes by adjoint tomography free from a reference model. It is offering constrains on deep mantle buoyancy by multiple methods, including tidal tomography, facilitating the development of mineralogical/dynamic state scenarios of the mantle. Such developments are making tomographic images ripe for direct mineral physics interpretation.Emergent Views of Earth's Deep Interior aims to present truly interdisciplinary research that has resulted from simultaneous contributions from these fields and is having significant impact on current view of Earth's interior. Volume highlights include: Use of sophisticated methods in computational mineral physics for materials simulation to address structural, electronic, and chemical complexity of Earth forming phases Detailed pressure, temperature, and composition dependent properties of Earth's mantle and core forming phases shedding light on the nature of Earth's internal structure. Particularly important have been simulations of melts such as liquid iron and silicates Melt properties that are more difficult to measure than solid state properties and simulations, filling a critical information gap. For instance, properties of liquid iron and alloys are helping to sort out the core chemical composition Calculations of transport properties such as electrical and thermal conductivity and melting temperatures are helping to clarify the thermal his