A 400-km-scale strike-slip zone near the boundary of Thetis Regio, Venus

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 45-55

  Tuckwell, G W ^a   Ghail, R C ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faulting; Strike slip; Tectonics; Transtension; Venus

Indexed keywords

PLANETARY SURFACE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSTENSION; VENUS;

EID: 0038206659     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00128-6     Document Type: Article

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