Hot Climate Could Shut Down Plate Tectonics

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 05/12/2008 - 19:15

A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics finds that a much hotter climate could shut down the Earth's plate tectonics.

While human-induced climate change couldn't generate the needed heat, volcanic activity or changes in the sun's luminosity could.

The research, in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, may help explain why Venus swelters beneath a thick blanket of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.


 

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