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<td><em>image by [mailto:jocelyn.serot@wanadoo.fr Jocelyn Sérot], France</em><br /> | <td><em>image by [mailto:jocelyn.serot@wanadoo.fr Jocelyn Sérot], France</em><br /> | ||
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| − | The western edge of the Tranquillitatis Basin is an interesting transition zone where basins intersect. Do you see the evidence here for three different basins? Easiest is the lavas of Mare Tranquillitatis on the right and its series of - nearly linear here - but really circumferential rilles that mark the flexure zone where the lavas bent as the basin subsided under their weight. Just near the right edge are mare ridges, showing where the subsiding basin caused low angle faults - the ridges - where one slab of mare moved under its neighbor. Only a small part of the second basin is visible. It is Serenitatis, part of whose rim is marked with the curved mountain ridge at top center. Some of its circumferential rilles are just glimpsed above Plinius and at upper left. The third basin isn't present but it created the ridged and gouged terrain on the left. Imbrium's eject didn't fall from the sky here, it roared overland, scouring and rounding crater rims and pre-existing ejecta from the two earlier basins. But Imbrium itself was older than the maria of Tranquillitatis and Serenitatis, for Imbrium's ejecta disappears under the lavas. Before the lavas were deposited, Imbrium ejecta must have covered the floors of both older basins. In fact, the low mare ridge between the two Arago domes is on the trend of the linearized Imbrium ejecta and thus probably is also ejecta. A similar ridge just north of [ | + | The western edge of the Tranquillitatis Basin is an interesting transition zone where basins intersect. Do you see the evidence here for three different basins? Easiest is the lavas of Mare Tranquillitatis on the right and its series of - nearly linear here - but really circumferential rilles that mark the flexure zone where the lavas bent as the basin subsided under their weight. Just near the right edge are mare ridges, showing where the subsiding basin caused low angle faults - the ridges - where one slab of mare moved under its neighbor. Only a small part of the second basin is visible. It is Serenitatis, part of whose rim is marked with the curved mountain ridge at top center. Some of its circumferential rilles are just glimpsed above Plinius and at upper left. The third basin isn't present but it created the ridged and gouged terrain on the left. Imbrium's eject didn't fall from the sky here, it roared overland, scouring and rounding crater rims and pre-existing ejecta from the two earlier basins. But Imbrium itself was older than the maria of Tranquillitatis and Serenitatis, for Imbrium's ejecta disappears under the lavas. Before the lavas were deposited, Imbrium ejecta must have covered the floors of both older basins. In fact, the low mare ridge between the two Arago domes is on the trend of the linearized Imbrium ejecta and thus probably is also ejecta. A similar ridge just north of [https://the-moon.us/wiki/Rükl_35 Ross] may be another piece of buried ejecta. It is fun to figure out why random landforms exist.<br /> |
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | ||
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<strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | <strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | ||
| − | Rükl plate [ | + | Rükl plate [https://the-moon.us/wiki/R%C3%BCkl_35 35]<br /> |
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[February 11, 2010|Troubled Floor]] </p> | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[February 11, 2010|Troubled Floor]] </p> | ||
<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[February 13, 2010|Driving Across Ptolemy]] </p> | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[February 13, 2010|Driving Across Ptolemy]] </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:46, 13 October 2018
Where Basins Collide
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Yesterday's LPOD: Troubled Floor
Tomorrow's LPOD: Driving Across Ptolemy
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