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