Ribbon spacing in Venusian tessera: Implications for layer thickness and thermal state

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Ghent, Rebecca R ^a   Tibuleac, Ileana M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b Weston Geophysical Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BRITTLE DUCTILE TRANSITIONS; DOMINANT WAVELENGTH; DUCTILE SUBSTRATE; HOT CONDITIONS; HOT ENVIRONMENTS; LAYER THICKNESS; MEASUREMENTS OF; THERMAL STATE;

SUBSTRATES;

VENUSIA;

EID: 0242417575     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015994     Document Type: Article

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