Publication Date:
1983-07-01
Description:
Venera 13 and Venera 14 transmitted almost complete panoramic views of their landing sites. Analyses of the photographs show the presence of rock formations undergoing geomorphic degradation. The formations display ripple marks, thin layering, differential erosion, and curvilinear fracturings. Some of them are interpreted as lithified clastic sediments. The lithification could have taken place at depth or at the surface, resulting in a type of duricrust. The origin of the sediments is unknown but could be aeolian, volcanic, or related to impacts or to turbidity currents.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Florensky, C P -- Basilevsky, A T -- Kryuchkov, V P -- Kusmin, R O -- Nikolaeva, O V -- Pronin, A A -- Chernaya, I M -- Tyuflin, Y S -- Selivanov, A S -- Naraeva, M K -- Ronca, L B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Jul 1;221(4605):57-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17738015" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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