Geological-morphological description of Loukhy and Atalanta Plains (Venus surface photographic map, sheet B-7)
Abstract
The striped plains of the Loukhy-Atalanta area represent a transitional region between the older dislocated elevated continents in the west to the younger oceanic plains with extension belts in the east. The striped plains are covered by a network of dikes and fracture zones. They can be compared to areas of dispersed spreading on earth.
- Publication:
-
JPRS Report Science Technology USSR Space
- Pub Date:
- January 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989RpScT...2...11S
- Keywords:
-
- Plains;
- Planetary Geology;
- Planetary Mapping;
- Venus Surface;
- Planetary Craters;
- Structural Properties (Geology);
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration