Dorsum Buckland
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Dorsum Buckland is a large wrinkle ridge at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".Script error: No such module "Celestial object quadrangle". in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon, 369 km long. It was named after British geologist William Buckland in 1976.[1]
Dorsum Buckland's ridges are 200 to 300 meters high and were formed by compressional stresses near the center of the basin, possibly over buried basin structures.[2]
References
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- ↑ Dorsum Buckland, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
- ↑ Stereo Atlas FEATURES OF INTEREST, Montes Haemus, Mare Serenitatis, L&PI, 2000.
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External links
- LAC-42
- LTO-41C2 Galen, Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (shows northwestern Dorsum Buckland)
- LTO-42D1 Hornsby, Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (shows southeastern Dorsum Buckland)
- Dorsum Buckland at The Moon Wiki
- Buckland Boulders, a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter article