Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0064-1, published online 19 February 2018.

In the version of this Article originally published, a thick, white line indicating the mid-lithosphere discontinuity was missing from Fig. 5a. Additionally, in Fig. 5c, where two foundered lithosphere piles are depicted, the colours of the pile on the right were inverted. These errors have now been corrected in all online versions of the Article.

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Fig. 5