Hot-spot tectonics of Eistla Regio, Venus: Results from Magellan images and Pioneer Venus gravity

Details Hot-spot tectonics of Eistla Regio, Venus: Results from Magellan images and Pioneer Venus gravity Hot-spot tectonics of Eistla Regio, Venus: Results from Magellan images and Pioneer Venus gravity

Jun 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept...39g&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 39-40 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)

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Planetary Evolution, Planetary Geology, Planetary Gravitation, Tectonics, Topography, Venus Surface, Calderas, Pioneer Venus Spacecraft, Plumes, Venus (Planet), Volcanoes, Volcanology

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Eistla Regio (ER) is a broad, low, discontinuous topographic rise striking roughly EW at low northern latitudes of Venus. Some 2000 x 7000 km in dimensions, it is the third largest rise in planform on Venus after Aphrodite Terra and Beta Phoebe Regiones. These rises are the key physiographic elements in a hot spot model of global tectonics including transient plume behavior. Since ER is the first such rise viewed by Magellan and the latitude is very favorable for Pioneer Venus gravity studies, some of the predictions of a time dependent hot spot model are tested. Western ER is defined as the rise including Gula and Sif Mons and central ER as that including Sappho Patera. Superior conjunction prevented Magellan from returning data on eastern ER (Pavlova) during the first mapping cycle. It is concluded that the western and central portions of ER, while part of the same broad topographic rise and tectonic framework, have distinctly different surface ages and gravity signatures. The western rise, including Gula and Sif Mons, is the expression of deep seated uplift with volcanism limited to the individual large shields. The eastern portion has been widely resurfaced more recently by thermal anomalies in the mantle.

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