Fig. 2: More than 40,000 graben-fissure lineaments were mapped in this study and interpreted as underlain by mafic dykes. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 2: More than 40,000 graben-fissure lineaments were mapped in this study and interpreted as underlain by mafic dykes.

From: Dyke swarms record the plume stage evolution of the Atla Regio superplume on Venus

Fig. 2

They are so densely mapped in some areas that they appear as continuous red colour. See the generalised distributions in Fig. 3, which show the geometric patterns with improved clarity. Background NASA Magellan SAR image in this figure and also in Figs. 2–5 and 6a are downloaded from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center (https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search?pmi-target=venus).

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