Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981georl...8..741a&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 8, July 1981, p. 741-744.
Physics
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Photogeology, Planetology, Tectonics, Venus Surface, Volcanology, Landforms, Orography, Pacific Ocean, Planetary Evolution, Resolution, Venus, Earth, Comparisons, Volcanism, Tectonism, Pioneer Venus, Crust, Topography, Evolution, Imagery, Techniques, Procedure, Lithosphere, Highlands, Altimetry, Simulations, Features, Temperatures
Scientific paper
In an attempt to learn what volcanotectonic features can still be discerned in continental and oceanic areas of the earth when topographic data are degraded to simulate the data sampled by the Pioneer-Venus altimeter, two digital topographic data sets (the 30-second continental U.S. altitude data and the 30 x 30 nautical mile bathymetry data for the North Pacific) were degraded and displayed in the same way as the altimeter data from Venus. The Appalachians were reduced to a gentle swell, with a wavelength of 300 km, and a height of 500 m. The Cordillera was seen as a broad swell, 2500 km wide, and about 2 km high. The east Pacific rise, east Pacific fractures, seamount chains, the Hawaiian swell, and most trenches were discernible in the degraded Pacific data; whereas rises, transforms, seamount chains, and trenches were not seen in the Venus data, even after corrections were made for the higher surface temperature and the absence of oceans on Venus. It was concluded that a plate tectonic regime, similar to earth's does not currently appear to exist on Venus. As shown by the Cordillera data, the Pioneer-Venus information is not of sufficiently high quality to discern whether the highlands of Venus preserve evidence for orogenic events related to plate tectonics.
Arvidson Ray E.
Davies Geoffrey F.
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