Morphology, stratigraphy, and surface roughness properties of Venusian lava flow fields

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Byrnes, Jeffrey M ^a   Crown, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow emplacement; Flow morphology; Lava flow field; Lava surface roughness; Radar backscatter; Venus

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; LAVA FLOW; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; STRATIGRAPHY; VENUS;

EID: 0037175307     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001je001828     Document Type: Article

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