Resurfacing events on Venus: Implications on plume dynamics and surface topography

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3701201s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 1, CiteID L01201

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Computational Geophysics: Modeling (1952, 4255), Tectonophysics: Dynamics: Convection Currents, And Mantle Plumes, Tectonophysics: Subduction Zone Processes (1031, 3060, 3613, 8413), Tectonophysics: Stresses: Crust And Lithosphere

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Global resurfacing events explain the relatively young and uniformly aged surface of Venus. In numerical models featuring these events a variety of plume classes occur ranging from strong, stable to smaller, wind-driven upwellings. We investigate this plume dynamics in a 3D Cartesian geometry paying special attention to the surface topography. While the stable upwellings of the stagnant-lid phase correlate with an elevation of the surface, the wind-driven upwellings of the resurfacing phase do not necessarily correlate with a positive topography signal. We rather observe that a thick plate can dominate the topography above upwellings.

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