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Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths

by Space Cadet <kaw211@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jan 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM

On Jan 11, 11:10 am, Allen Thomson <thoms...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> The team found that super-Earths would be more geologically active
> than our planet, experiencing more vigorous plate tectonics due to
> thinner plates under more stress. Earth itself was found to be a
> borderline case, not surprisingly since the slightly smaller planet
> Venus is tectonically inactive.

I remember reading somewhere, maybe in Grinspoon's (sp) _Venus
Revealed_
that suggests that the lack of an ocean to lubricate the plate
tectonics is why Venus doesn't have any


Just my $0.02

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 6 Posts in Topic:
Plate tectonics and super-Earths
Allen Thomson <thomson  2008-01-11 09:10:20 
Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths
Space Cadet <kaw211@[E  2008-01-11 11:10:37 
Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths
Brian Davis <brdavis@[  2008-01-11 15:33:40 
Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths
Brian Davis <brdavis@[  2008-01-11 15:53:20 
Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths
mcv <mcvmcv@[EMAIL PRO  2008-01-12 10:07:11 
Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths
nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-01-23 10:49:24 

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