Transition from Plate Tectonics to Stagnant Lid Convection on Venus 500 M.Y. Ago

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27.1243s&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 1243

Physics

Convection, Magnetism, Resurfacing, Venus, Volcanism

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Cratering record suggests that resurfacing on Venus ended around 500 million years ago. Possible explanations of this event involve some change in global convective style of the interior of Venus. I assume that this was a transition from plate tectonics to stagnant lid convection and suggest that the cessation of plate tectonics is likely to be a relatively fast process caused by the drop of ratio of the stresses to the yield strength in the lithosphere. A drop of the rate of magma production and cessation of generation of the magnetic field on Venus are among consequences of this event.

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