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Primer on the geology of the nearside Moon
http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...logyTable.html
This is to announce an amateur website that provides an introduction to the geology of the nearside of the Moon. Finder lists for 835 lunar craters and other features by lunar geologic era are provided based on Don Wilhems' 1987 classic, A Geologic History of the Moon, USGS Survey Paper 1348, Dr. Charles Wood's Lunar Picture of the Day (LPOD) image gallery, and USGS-NASA Geologic Atlas of the Moon charts, prepared by NASA as part of the Apollo program. Heavy reliance is made on 12 color geologic maps, Charts 1 through 12, at the back of Wilhems' Geologic History of the Moon in order to illustrate which portions of the nearside Moon relate to several major lunar geologic eras. Examples of various lunar features are illustrated by linking to images at Wood's LPOD and NASA's Earth Observatory websites. This primer is intended to provide a quick index reference to images of key lunar features to support local amateur public and school star parties on the geologic era of features near the lunar terminator. It should be considered a prefatory introduction to lunar geology prior to reading more in-depth books such as Wood's The Modern Moon: A Personal View, the introductory chapter to Westfall's Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, or Wilhems' technical Geologic History. A relatively inexpensive ($30 USD) software alternative to this website is Patrick Chevalley's Virtual Moon Atlas (VMA), Pro Edition, Version 3.5, software. The Pro Edition of VMA includes a database program - Datlun - that includes geologic era coding for about 2,800 out of approximately 7,800 nearside features. Five feature reference tables will be of interest to most amateurs: Table 1: Lunar Geologic Eras - Summary | Sort order: Time before present descending http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...asSummaryTable Table 2: Basin impact associated structural features http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...nFeaturesTable Table 3: Feature Types - Examples and Earth Analogue Morphology http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...reAnalogyTable List of Features with Geologic Eras by Name http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...TableName.html List of Features with Geologic Eras by Lunar Latitude and Longitude http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...leLatLong.html Any corrections to errors in any of the above are welcomed and appreciated. Clear skies. - Canopus56 |
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