Venusian channel formation as a subsurface process

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lang, Nicholas P ^a   Hansen, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; RADAR IMAGERY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VENUS;

VENUSIA;

EID: 33745035466     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002629     Document Type: Article

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