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Gridded Plains (Venus)

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Definition

Plains on Venus displaying orthogonal fractures.

Category

A type of volcanic plain.

Synonyms

Gridded terrain; Lineated plains

Description

Parallel, thin, straight, intersecting extensional lineations on Venus with two orthogonal sets (Banerdt and Sammis 1992). In the type area on Guinevere Planitia, gridded plains consist of more linear NE trending fractures and more irregular NW trending lineations composed of a series of curvilinear en echelon fractures (Banerdt and Sammis 1992; Bowman and Sammis 1995; Fig. 1).

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Gridded plains with intersecting lineations, Venus, Guinevere Planitia, 30°N, 333°E (Banerdt and Sammis 1992). Magellan left-look radar (NASA/JPL)

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Richard E. Ernst

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Ernst, R.E. (2014). Gridded Plains (Venus). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_180-1

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