Stratigraphic List
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Stratigraphic List of Major Craters and Basins
Stratigraphy - glossary entry
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
Tycho
Aristarchus
Kepler
Eudoxus
Eratosthenian
1.1 - 3.2 b.y.
Eratosthenes
Pythagoras
Bullialdus
Theophilus
Langrenus
Upper Imbrium
3.2 - 3.75 b.y.
Archimedes
Plato
Posidonius
Piccolomini
Sinus Iridum
Lower Imbrian
3.75 - 3.85 b.y.
Petavius
Arzachel
Cassini
Macrobius
Vitello
Nectarian
3.85 - 3.92 b.y.
Cleomedes
Clavius
Humorum
Crisium
Nectaris
Pre-Nectarian
3.92 - 4.5 b.y.
Manzinus
Grimaldi
Ptolemaeus
Tranquillitatis
Gargantuan
Bibliography
- Wood, 2003, p. 55
- System/Approximate age: Current USGS stratigraphy as presented in Wilhelms' Geologic History of the Moon.
