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Andrew J. Smye coauthored models of carbon cycling and habitability on stagnant-lid planets. Cooling and volcanic production determine carbon-dioxide supply, while the availability of fresh rock limits its removal by weathering.^[ref]

This couples an interior heat budget to atmospheric conditions. A planet can retain some long-term carbon regulation without mobile plates, but the outcome depends on its initial inventories and subsequent thermal evolution.