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Bruno & Taylor 1995
Bruno, B.C. and Taylor, G.J. (1995). Morphologic identification of Venusian lavas. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL01318. issn: 0094-8276.

Two independent methods are applied to Venusian lavas. First, fractal properties of 30 lavas are used to identify a'a, pahoehoe and transitional morphologies. Eighteen of these flows are then characterized into these same morphologies based on their radar signal. The techniques produce similar identifications, lending confidence to the fractal identification of those flow margins that could not be studied by the radar technique. Three of these flow margins are of lavas in Mylitta Fluctus, a flood basalt. Our fractal analysis suggests all 3 margins were emplaced as a'a flows, which has implications for the emplacement of large lava plateaux in general. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Keywords
Volcanology, Lava rheology and morphology
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Geophysical Research Letters
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