A New Survey of Intermediate Volcanoes on Venus
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1100 (CD-ROM). [9] Stofan, E.R. et al. (2001) Icarus, 152, 75-95. Table 1. Statistics relating to each morphological class in the catalogue. Volcano class Frequency Mean diameter
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