Back matter
System of the landforms of Venus
The diagram shows the groups of landforms and how they relate. Click a landform described in this book to open its page.
Landforms in the diagram
- Diffuse deposits
- Lava flows
- Large volcanoes
- Festoon volcano
- Arachnoids
- Coronae
- Novae
- Channels
- Modified domes
- Anemones
- Lava channels
- Canali
- Steep-sided domes
- Lava plains
- Crustal plateaus
- Valley systems
- Small volcanoes
- Shield plains
- Tesserae
- Lobate plains
- Intratessera basins
- Lineated plains
- Graben systems
- Gridded plains
- Wrinkle ridge plains
- Fracture belts
- Splotches
- Ridge belts
- Crater clusters
- Mountain belts
- Flooded craters
- Central peak craters
- Peak-ring craters
- Crater outflows
- Regolith
- Radar anomaly
- Multiring basins
- Craters with petal-shaped ejecta
- Mass movements
- Radar-dark parabolas
- Dune fields
- Wind streaks
- Microdunes