Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths

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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