Thick lithosphere casts doubt on plate tectonics in Venus's geologically recent past

ScienceDaily
Jan 28, 2021, 1:46 pm218 pts
A study of a giant impact crater on Venus suggests that its lithosphere was too thick to have had Earth-like plate tectonics, at least for much of the past billion years.

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