Tessera deformation and the contemporaneous thermal state of the plateau highlands, Venus

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 147, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Brown, C David ^a,b   Grimm, Robert E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal shortening; Geothermal gradient; Highlands; Impact craters; Lithosphere; Rheology; Tectonics; Tesserae; Venus; Water

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PLANETARY LITHOSPHERE; TESSERA; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

VENUS;

EID: 0030693737     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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