Lunar Rupes
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List of Lunar Rupes (Fault)
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IAU-named Rupes
Rupes Altai (aka Altai Scarp)
Rupes Boris - not a fault, undeserving of a name - Tychocrater Tychocrater
Rupes Cauchy (aka Cauchy Fault)
Rupes Kelvin
Rupes Liebig
Rupes Mercator
Rupes Recta (aka Straight Wall)
Rupes Toscanelli - mare ridge, not a fault - Tychocrater Tychocrater
Other
Boscovich
Jules Verne (farside crater)
Lacus Mortis Fault
Neander Fault - see LPOD
Fault south of Herodotus
Fault south of Lansberg N: http://bit.ly/2zbsT5p (also known as Rima Albin, or Rima Lansberg N).
Hayn A Fault / Rupes Hayn A (on the floor of Hayn A): http://bit.ly/2CfpUuI
Fault or scarp east-northeast of Lohrmann D: http://bit.ly/2hmUSoD
Fault south-southwest of Schroter W and Schroter A: http://bit.ly/2zRpMjq
Lobate scarps
There are many lobate scarps on the moon's surface, large and small. Perhaps the most overlooked one is the long lobate scarp south of Vitello (east of Lacus Excellentiae). For info, see Additional Information in the page Vitello. - DannyCaes DannyCaes Dec 17, 2015
LROC Articles (lobate scarps)
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/984 (Investigating Newly Discovered Lobate Scarps).
Rupes Appalaches (on the moon's farside: from 10° North/ 111° East to 0° North/ 104° East) (near Saenger, Al-Khwarizmi, Lobachevsky).
Rupes Sibericus (on the moon's farside: from 10° North/ 119° East to 1° North/ 121° East) (near Guyot, Ostwald, Ibn-Firnas, King, Soddy).
(source of these two names: NASA's Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report).
Wikipedia (Terrestrial Fault)
Fault (geology).
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