Multiple Choice
Tectonic activity on Venus is characterized by:
A) large-scale convection currents in the mantle, which push several hard, lithospheric plates around on the surface.
B) constant resurfacing of the crust by lava floods, without separately identifiable upward and downward-flowing magma currents in the mantle.
C) a cool, solid mantle that has not driven any crustal deformation for the last 3.2 billion years.
D) hot-spot volcanism and localized regions of downwelling magma.
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