Tessera terrain and crustal plateaus, Venus

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1071-1074

  Hansen, Vicki L ^a   Banks, Brian K ^a   Ghent, Rebecca R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION;

DEEP MANTLES; GROWING BODIES; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; LOCAL REGION; ONION SKIN; TECTONIC LINEAMENTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

PLANETARY SURFACE; TESSERA; VENUS;

EID: 0033494704     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<1071:TTACPV>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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