1. Preface

   • Alexander Basilevsky
   • James Head
   • Steve Saunders

   EditorialNotes Pages: vii - x

2. Vital problems of Venus geology: Outlook for their resolution by MAGELLAN and post-Magellan missions

   • A. T. Basilevsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 23

3. Processes of crustal formation and evolution on Venus: An analysis of topography, hypsometry, and crustal thickness variations

   • James W. Head

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 55

4. Derivation of primary magmas and melting of crustal materials on Venus: Some preliminary petrogenetic considerations

   • Paul C. Hess
   • James W. Head

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 80

5. The stress state of Venusian crust and variations of its thickness: Implication for tectonics and geodynamics

   • Konstantin I. Marchenkov
   • Vladimir N. Zharkov
   • Anatoly M. Nikishin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 98

6. Tectonics of Venus: A review

   • Anatoly M. Nikishin

   ReviewPaper Pages: 101 - 125

7. Aeolian processes on Venus

   • Ronald Greeley
   • Raymond E. Arvidson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 157

8. Venusian impact craters on Magellan images: View from Venera 15/16

   • Boris A. Ivanov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 173

9. The global budget of impact-derived sediments on Venus

   • James B. Garvin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 190

10. Lakshmi Planum, Venus: Characteristics and models of origin

    • Kari M. Roberts
    • James W. Head

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 249

11. Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Ishtar Terra, Venus

    • R. W. Vorder Bruegge
    • J. W. Head

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 304

12. Geology of the Venus equatorial region from Pioneer Venus radar imaging

    • D. A. Senske

    OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 327

13. Geochemistry of the Venera 8 material demonstrates the presence of continental crust on Venus

    • O. V. Nikolayeva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 341

14. Eastern Aphrodite Terra on Venus: Characteristics, structure, and mode of origin

    • L. S. Crumpler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 388

15. Assemblages of geologic/morphologic units in the northern hemisphere of Venus

    • James W. Head

    OriginalPaper Pages: 391 - 408

16. Coronae and major shields on venus: Comparisons of their areas, basal altitudes and areal distribution

    • M. A. Ivanov
    • A. T. Basilevsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 409 - 420

17. Ridge belts on Venus: Morphology and origin

    • Sharon L. Frank
    • James W. Head

    OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 470

18. Ridge belts: Are they compressional or extensional structures?

    • V. P. Kryuchkov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 491

19. Small domes on Venus: Characteristics and origin

    • Jayne C. Aubele
    • E. N. Slyuta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 532

20. Possible origin of radar bright craters on Venus

    • A. P. Krivtsov
    • O. N. Rzhiga
    • A. I. Zakharov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 537

21. Names on the maps of Venus: A pre-MAGELLAN review

    • George A. Burba

    OriginalPaper Pages: 541 - 558

22. Orbit determination for a radar mapping satellite of Venus

    • E. L. Akim
    • Z. P. Vlasova
    • A. G. Tuchin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 559 - 578