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Sinking plates on Venus

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Unlike Earth, Venus lacks discrete, moving plates. Analogue model experiments suggest that observed hints at plate recycling do indeed indicate current, localized destruction of the Venusian surface.

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Figure 1: Comparison of suggested mantle convection in Earth and Venus.

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  1. Fabio Crameri is at the Centre of Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) at the University of Oslo, PostBox 1028 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway,

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Crameri, F. Sinking plates on Venus. Nature Geosci 10, 330–331 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2941

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