Impact craters on geologic units of northern Venus: Implications for the duration of the transition from tessera to regional plains

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2593-2596

  Basilevsky, A T ^a,b   Head III, J W ^b   Ivanov, M A ^a   Kryuchkov, V P ^a  

^a VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANETS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CRATERS; GEOLOGIC UNITS; REGIONAL PLAINS; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; VOLCANIC ACTIVITY; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; IMPACT CRATERS; MAGELLAN SAR; SURFACE AGE; TIME INTERVAL;

GEOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; VENUS;

EID: 0033371983     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008329     Document Type: Article

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