TY - JOUR AU - Romeo Briones, Ignacio AU - Turcotte, Donald L. (Donald Lawson) PY - 2008 DO - 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.009 SN - 0012-821X UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49710 T2 - Earth and Planetary Science Letters AB - We propose that tessera terrains on Venus represent continental crust that does not participate in theperiodic recycling of the lithosphere through global subduction events.We have studied the force balance onthe boundary of a continental area that... LA - eng M2 - 85 PB - Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam KW - Crustal plateau KW - Continental crust KW - Global subduction event KW - Tessera terrain KW - Venus TI - Pulsating continents on Venus: An explanation for crustal plateaus andtessera terrains TY - journal article VL - 276 ER -