Article: Ishtar Terra highlands on Venus formed by melting beneath thinned lithosphere creating a stiff mantle root, akin to craton formation on the early Earth fabio capitanio @monasheae Madeleine Kerr thelifetectonic Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sue Smrekar NASA JPL nature.com/articles/s4156…

The most-read article for #Geology this month is August's "Double subduction controls on long-lived continental tectonics and subcontinental mantle temperatures" by Lin-Sen Li & colleagues. doi.org/10.1130/G52232… #Geoscience #GSAPubs // Image: Fig 2 from paper