Rifts and large volcanoes on Venus: Global assessment of their age relations with regional plains

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E10, 2000, Pages 24583-24611

  Basilevsky, Alexander T ^a,b   Head III, James W ^b  

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

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; RIFT ZONE; VENUS; VOLCANO;

EID: 0034515428     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001260     Document Type: Article

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