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Planetary science

mantle convection regime in which a cold, strong single plate caps the interior and does not subduct, proposed for Venus and other bodies lacking plate tectonics.

In planetary science, stagnant lid refers to mantle convection regime in which a cold, strong single plate caps the interior and does not subduct, proposed for Venus and other bodies lacking plate tectonics. This meaning comes from Solomatov (1996) in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.[1]

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References

Solomatov, V. S., & Moresi, L. ‐. (1996). Stagnant lid convection on Venus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 101(E2), 4737-4753. https://doi.org/10.1029/95je03361

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