Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Mar 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27.1131s&link_type=abstract
Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 1131
Mathematics
Logic
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Aphrodite, Ovda, Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Venus
Scientific paper
The global plains materials of the Venusian lowlands, generally interpreted to be composed of flood basalts, lap onto the equatorial highlands of Western Aphrodite Regio. Systematic geologic mapping of the Ovda region using the Magellan global data (radar images, altimetry and gravity) has revealed that the contacts between highlands and plains have been tilted up toward the highlands after the plains emplacement. Analysis of the western part of Ovda Regio shows that the northern contact occurs at an average radius of 6053.8 km and the mean plains elevation 500 km to the north of the contact is at a radius of 6052.0 km, indicating that the boundary position has changed by nearly 2 km. Volcanic rilles are superposed on the tilted plains surfaces along both the northern and southern boundaries of the Ovda highlands. The local volcanicity that cut the rilles indicates that some local volcanic activity occurred subsequent to the marginal uplift. Models under study include post plains-emplacement uplift of the highlands or relative sinking of the plains. Isostatic mechanisms are likely in either case. Although complex structural models for the plains-highland margin are possible, simple structural models in which plains were emplaced as a nearly level geoidal surface and subsequently the highlands of Ovda were uplifted relative to the plains. Initial mapping is focused on 1:5,000,000 scale and is integrating observations of surface characteristics and geophysical inferences drawn from topography and gravity.
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