The Lithosphere of Venus Has Been Broken And, in Places, Mobile

Paul K. Byrne, Richard C. Ghail, A. M. Celâl Şengör, Christian Klimczak, Rebecca M. Hahn, Peter B. James, and Sean C. Solomon, Planetary Research Group, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA ([email protected]), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW72AZ, UK, Department of Geology, Faculty of Mines and the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Maslak, İstanbul, Turkey, Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA.