stagnant lid tectonics.

Factors contributing to lid tectonics

Many characteristics of a planetary body influence the presence and degree of lid tectonics. The temperature of a body's core-mantle boundary, and the presence of water, strongly affect the rheological, composition, and thermal diagnostics of lid tectonics.

The lid will not participate in the underlying convection of the mantle. At the base of the lithosphere, where the lid is in contact with less viscous material,

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