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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>G. G. Schaber</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1969</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="TextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;The Sinus &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;ridum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt; quadrangle includes the northwestern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;sector&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt; of Mare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;mbrium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;, the Sinus &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;ridu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt; embayment, the arcuate Montes Jura which partly surround Sinus &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;ridum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;, and several terra islands in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt; mare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;such&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt; as the Montes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;Teneriffe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;Montes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt; recti, and C. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;Herschel *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;. Mare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="SpellingError SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;imbrium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt; occupies a c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;omple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;x depression or basin consisting of an inner basin and several outer concentric troughs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;separated by raised rings (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;artmann and Kuiper, 1962). The center and much of the inner basin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;, p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;art of the first &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;raised ring, and part of the first trough lies within the quadrangle. The terra islands are exposed parts of the first r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;aised ring, which is approximately 670 km in diam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243286507 BCX8"&gt;eter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="EOP SCXW243286507 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{&amp;quot;201341983&amp;quot;:0,&amp;quot;335559739&amp;quot;:160,&amp;quot;335559740&amp;quot;:259}"&gt; Sinus Iridum embays a simpler and smaller structure, a crater 250 km in diameter (herein referred to as the Iridum crater) whose partly exposed rim crest is the Montes Jura. Mare ridges overlie buried parts of the Imbrium ring and the Iridum crater rimcrest (fig. 1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3133/i602</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>(LAC-24) Geologic map of the Sinus Iridum quadrangle of the moon</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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