Relaxation of compensated topography and the evolution of crustal plateaus on Venus

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Nunes, Daniel Cahn ^a   Phillips, Roger J ^a   Brown, C David ^b   Dombard, Andrew J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Environmental Protection ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal plateau; Gravitational relaxation; Tessera inliers

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; PLATEAU; TOPOGRAPHY; VENUS;

EID: 2342642757     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003je002119     Document Type: Article

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