Stratigraphic List
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Stratigraphic List of Major Craters and Basins
[/Stratigraphy Stratigraphy] - glossary entryTable of Contents
A list of the major craters and basins of each stratigraphic age group. Try to find them all, and as you view them, notice the features that characterize their assigned ages.
Copernican
Present - 1.1 b.y.
[/Copernicus Copernicus]
[/Tycho Tycho]
[/Aristarchus Aristarchus]
[/Kepler Kepler]
[/Eudoxus Eudoxus]
Eratosthenian
1.1 - 3.2 b.y.
[/Eratosthenes Eratosthenes]
[/Pythagoras Pythagoras]
[/Bullialdus Bullialdus]
[/Theophilus Theophilus]
[/Langrenus Langrenus]
Upper Imbrium
3.2 - 3.75 b.y.
[/Archimedes Archimedes]
[/Plato Plato]
[/Posidonius Posidonius]
[/Piccolomini Piccolomini]
[/Sinus%20Iridum Sinus Iridum]
Lower Imbrian
3.75 - 3.85 b.y.
[/Petavius Petavius]
[/Arzachel Arzachel]
[/Cassini Cassini]
[/Macrobius Macrobius]
[/Vitello Vitello]
Nectarian
3.85 - 3.92 b.y.
[/Cleomedes Cleomedes]
[/Clavius Clavius]
[/Mare%20Humorum Humorum]
[/Mare%20Crisium Crisium]
[/Mare%20Nectaris Nectaris]
Pre-Nectarian
3.92 - 4.5 b.y.
[/Manzinus Manzinus]
[/Grimaldi Grimaldi]
[/Ptolemaeus Ptolemaeus]
[/Mare%20Tranquillitatis Tranquillitatis]
[/Gargantuan%20Basin Gargantuan]
Bibliography
- [/Wood%2C%202003 Wood, 2003], p. 55
- System/Approximate age: Current USGS stratigraphy as presented in Wilhelms' [/Wilhelms%2C%201987 Geologic History of the Moon].
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