[meteorite-list] Artemis, Venus: Largest Tectonic Feature In the Solar System ????

[Paul H.]

May 2010 Geology highlights - "Artemis, Venus: The largest 
tectonomagmatic feature in the solar system?"
http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/10-22.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/gsoa-m2g043010.php

"New geologic mapping reveals that Artemis, a unique 2400-km-
diameter feature on Venus, is much larger than previously 
recognized, including a wide outer trough (>5000 km diameter), 
a radial dike swarm (12,000 km diameter), and a concentric 
wrinkle ridge suite (13,000 km diameter)."

Hansen, V. L., and A. Olive, 2010, Artemis, Venus: The largest 
tectonomagmatic feature in the solar system? Geology.
vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 467-470; DOI: 10.1130/G30643.1

http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/38/5/467

2009 GSA Annual Meeting Abstract:

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_163326.htm

Yours,

Paul H.