Based on its surface features, the most important event on Venus in the past billion years or so was ________

A) the onset of mantle convection, which caused Venus's lithosphere to split into plates like those on Earth
B) a global "repaving" that erased essentially all the surface features that had existed earlier
C) the impact of an unusually large asteroid that left a deep scar on one side of the planet
D) the eruption of a giant volcano that formed one of Venus's "continents"


B

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