Large flow fields on Venus: Implications for plumes, rift associations, and resurfacing

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 81-101

  Magee, Kari P ^a   Head, James W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FLOODS; FRACTURE; STRATIGRAPHY;

COMMON SOURCE; DECOMPRESSION MELTING; EARTH CENTER; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

FLOW FIELDS;

FLOOD BASALT; LITHOSOL; LITHOSPHERE; PLUME; VENUS; VOLCANIC SOIL;

EID: 84871082995     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.81     Document Type: Article

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