Difference between revisions of "January 3, 2014"
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
__NOTOC__ | __NOTOC__ | ||
=Watching the Other Rilles= | =Watching the Other Rilles= | ||
| − | |||
<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> --> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> --> | ||
<!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:14:<img src="/file/view/LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg/480326938/LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg" alt="" title="" /> -->[[File:LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg|LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg]]<!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:14 --><br /> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:14:<img src="/file/view/LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg/480326938/LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg" alt="" title="" /> -->[[File:LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg|LPOD-Jan3-14.jpg]]<!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:14 --><br /> | ||
| − | <em>north to upper-right image by [mailto:christian.viladrich@neuf.fr Christian Viladrich], France</em><br /> | + | <em>north to upper-right image by [mailto:christian.viladrich@neuf.fr" rel="nofollow Christian Viladrich], France</em><br /> |
<table class="wiki_table"> | <table class="wiki_table"> | ||
<tr> | <tr> | ||
| Line 11: | Line 10: | ||
<td>The Apennine Mountains are the most prominent part of the rim of the Imbrium impact basin. The scarp front of the Apennines is equivalent to the scarps below the rim crests of fresh craters like Tycho and Copernicus - it marks where giant landslides occurred, with debris that slid downslope being visible piled at the bottom of the scarp. Linear ridges of debris, such as near the bottom of Palus Putredinis (PP), between the Fresnel Rilles and the scarp, and near the Theaetetus Rille, may be the tops of terraces whose lower parts are buried by lavas. The material near the Bradley rille may be more jumbled, although lineations parallel to the terrace ridges are detectable. The Bradley Rille formed after the slumped material was emplaced for it cuts it as a normal, flat-floored rille. I suggest that it and the Fresnel and Theaetetus rilles formed as concentric rilles, similar to those around Serenitatis and Tranquillitatis, as the basin floor subsided and the basin edge bent downward and fractured. The vent (V1, [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Jomo Jomo]) for the Hadley rille started along the scarp of the Apennines, presumably because the fracture provided a conduit for rising magma. Another elongated vent (V2, [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Kathleen Kathleen]) for a shorter sinuous rille does not seem associated with basin concentric fractures but with the nearly perpendicular ones indicated by many older thin Archimedes Rilles.<br /> | <td>The Apennine Mountains are the most prominent part of the rim of the Imbrium impact basin. The scarp front of the Apennines is equivalent to the scarps below the rim crests of fresh craters like Tycho and Copernicus - it marks where giant landslides occurred, with debris that slid downslope being visible piled at the bottom of the scarp. Linear ridges of debris, such as near the bottom of Palus Putredinis (PP), between the Fresnel Rilles and the scarp, and near the Theaetetus Rille, may be the tops of terraces whose lower parts are buried by lavas. The material near the Bradley rille may be more jumbled, although lineations parallel to the terrace ridges are detectable. The Bradley Rille formed after the slumped material was emplaced for it cuts it as a normal, flat-floored rille. I suggest that it and the Fresnel and Theaetetus rilles formed as concentric rilles, similar to those around Serenitatis and Tranquillitatis, as the basin floor subsided and the basin edge bent downward and fractured. The vent (V1, [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Jomo Jomo]) for the Hadley rille started along the scarp of the Apennines, presumably because the fracture provided a conduit for rising magma. Another elongated vent (V2, [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Kathleen Kathleen]) for a shorter sinuous rille does not seem associated with basin concentric fractures but with the nearly perpendicular ones indicated by many older thin Archimedes Rilles.<br /> | ||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
| − | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | + | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow Chuck Wood]</em><br /> |
<br /> | <br /> | ||
<strong>Technical Details</strong><br /> | <strong>Technical Details</strong><br /> | ||
| Line 17: | Line 16: | ||
<strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | <strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | ||
<em>[http://lpod.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Atlas+of+the+Moon 21st Century Atlas]</em> charts 11 & 18.<br /> | <em>[http://lpod.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Atlas+of+the+Moon 21st Century Atlas]</em> charts 11 & 18.<br /> | ||
| − | Christian's [http://www.astrosurf.com/viladrich/ webpage]<br /> | + | Christian's [http://www.astrosurf.com/viladrich/" rel="nofollow webpage]<br /> |
</td> | </td> | ||
</tr> | </tr> | ||
Revision as of 22:54, 4 January 2015
Watching the Other Rilles
north to upper-right image by " rel="nofollow Christian Viladrich, France
 |
The Apennine Mountains are the most prominent part of the rim of the Imbrium impact basin. The scarp front of the Apennines is equivalent to the scarps below the rim crests of fresh craters like Tycho and Copernicus - it marks where giant landslides occurred, with debris that slid downslope being visible piled at the bottom of the scarp. Linear ridges of debris, such as near the bottom of Palus Putredinis (PP), between the Fresnel Rilles and the scarp, and near the Theaetetus Rille, may be the tops of terraces whose lower parts are buried by lavas. The material near the Bradley rille may be more jumbled, although lineations parallel to the terrace ridges are detectable. The Bradley Rille formed after the slumped material was emplaced for it cuts it as a normal, flat-floored rille. I suggest that it and the Fresnel and Theaetetus rilles formed as concentric rilles, similar to those around Serenitatis and Tranquillitatis, as the basin floor subsided and the basin edge bent downward and fractured. The vent (V1, Jomo) for the Hadley rille started along the scarp of the Apennines, presumably because the fracture provided a conduit for rising magma. Another elongated vent (V2, Kathleen) for a shorter sinuous rille does not seem associated with basin concentric fractures but with the nearly perpendicular ones indicated by many older thin Archimedes Rilles.
|
