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Lobate Plains (Venus)

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Material unit on Venus, having morphologically smooth surfaces that are occasionally disturbed by a few extensional features related to rift zones, and characterized by their nonuniform radar albedo pattern consisting of numerous bright and dark flow-like features.

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The flows of lobate plains can be as long as several hundred kilometers and tens of kilometers wide (Fig. 1).

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Examples of lobate plains on Venus at the Magellan resolution (100–200 m/px). (a) Mylitta Fluctus, a large complex of overlapping lava flows. (b) Lava flows from Tepev Mons in Bell Regio (arrow indicates embayment of wrinkle ridges). (c) Lava flows to the south of Lakshmi Planum. (d) Lava flows from Maat Mons in Atla Regio. (a) C1-MIDR 60S347, at 53.4°S, 355.6°E. (b) C1-MIDR 30 N045, at 25.6°N, 41.7°E. (c) C1-MIDR 60 N347, at 53.4°N, 348.2°E. (d) C1-MIDR 00 N097, at 2.2°N, 193.9°E. Magellan radar mosaics (NASA/JPL)

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  1. Vernadsky Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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Ivanov, M. (2014). Lobate Plains (Venus). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_490-1

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