EMERGING POSSIBILITIES AND INSUPERABLE LIMITATIONS OF EXOGEOPHYSICS: THE EXAMPLE OF PLATE TECTONICS
To understand the evolution and the habitability of any rocky exoplanet demands detailed knowledge about its geophysical state and history - such as predicting the tectonic mode of a planet. Yet no astronomical observation can directly confirm or rule out the occurrence of plate tectonics on a given...
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American Astronomical Society/IOP Publishing,
2018-03-19T19:08:45Z.
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