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''([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 95A4)'' [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac95/ LAC map] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/I822/ Geologic map]<br /> <br /> | ''([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 95A4)'' [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac95/ LAC map] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/I822/ Geologic map]<br /> <br /> | ||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| − | The Birt Rille is a slightly curved ~50 km long channel that starts and ends in a pit. Presumably the north end is its origin for the rille/pit there widens and elongates and bisects a low dome. Thierry LeGault's excellent [http:// | + | The Birt Rille is a slightly curved ~50 km long channel that starts and ends in a pit. Presumably the north end is its origin for the rille/pit there widens and elongates and bisects a low dome. Thierry LeGault's excellent [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/January_11,_2004 image] reveals a short parallel rille that cuts the western edge of the dome. His image also shows a series of offsets in the rille just south of the elongated pit, and a major offset half-way down the rille. Such offsets are unlikely in a lava channel/tube made by flowing lava - which is the origin for sinuous rilles - and suggests that faulting has occurred. But the association of the rille with the dome is strongly indicative of a lava channel origin, so the implication is that the small scale faulting occurred later. This is an uncomfortable interpretation because there is no evidence of faults in the lava except for the offsets. This is officially weird. <span class="membersnap">- [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/tychocrater [[Image:tychocrater-lg.jpg|16px|tychocrater]]] [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/tychocrater tychocrater] <small>Jun 30, 2007</small></span><br /> <br /> |
==Description: Wikipedia== | ==Description: Wikipedia== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt_crater Rima Birt]<br /> <br /> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt_crater Rima Birt]<br /> <br /> | ||
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Named from nearby crater. ([/Birt Birt])<br /> Called '''Rima Birt I''' on Chart 82 in the ''Times Atlas of the Moon.''<br /> <br /> | Named from nearby crater. ([/Birt Birt])<br /> Called '''Rima Birt I''' on Chart 82 in the ''Times Atlas of the Moon.''<br /> <br /> | ||
==LPOD Articles== | ==LPOD Articles== | ||
| − | [http:// | + | [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/February_13,_2007 New Observations of a Well-Known Area]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/January_11,_2004 Straight Wall]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/July_30,_2004 Obliquely Viewed Fault]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/April_13,_2005 Righteous Recti]<br /> [http://lpod.wikispaces.com/August%2020%2C%202009 Succession]<br /> [http://lpod.wikispaces.com/February%203%2C%202014 Keeping up with Amateurs]<br /> <br /> |
==LROC Articles== | ==LROC Articles== | ||
[http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/975 Probing the lunar surface using small impact craters] (the main image in this article shows a small impact ray-crater immediately west of the northern "head" of '''Rima Birt''').<br /> <br /> | [http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/975 Probing the lunar surface using small impact craters] (the main image in this article shows a small impact ray-crater immediately west of the northern "head" of '''Rima Birt''').<br /> <br /> | ||
Revision as of 19:28, 11 April 2018
Contents
Rima Birt
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Lat: 21.0°S, Long: 9.0°W, Length: 50 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2054 Rükl: 54] |
Table of Contents
[#Rima Birt Rima Birt]
[#Rima Birt-Images Images]
[#Rima Birt-Maps Maps]
[#Rima Birt-Description Description]
[#Rima Birt-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Rima Birt-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Rima Birt-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Rima Birt-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Rima Birt-LROC Articles LROC Articles]
[#Rima Birt-Bibliography Bibliography]
Mario Weigand; The rille is to the left (west) of the [/Rupes%20Recta Straight Wall].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 95A4) LAC map Geologic map
Description
The Birt Rille is a slightly curved ~50 km long channel that starts and ends in a pit. Presumably the north end is its origin for the rille/pit there widens and elongates and bisects a low dome. Thierry LeGault's excellent image reveals a short parallel rille that cuts the western edge of the dome. His image also shows a series of offsets in the rille just south of the elongated pit, and a major offset half-way down the rille. Such offsets are unlikely in a lava channel/tube made by flowing lava - which is the origin for sinuous rilles - and suggests that faulting has occurred. But the association of the rille with the dome is strongly indicative of a lava channel origin, so the implication is that the small scale faulting occurred later. This is an uncomfortable interpretation because there is no evidence of faults in the lava except for the offsets. This is officially weird. - tychocrater tychocrater Jun 30, 2007
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
Named from nearby crater. ([/Birt Birt])
Called Rima Birt I on Chart 82 in the Times Atlas of the Moon.
LPOD Articles
New Observations of a Well-Known Area
Straight Wall
Obliquely Viewed Fault
Righteous Recti
Succession
Keeping up with Amateurs
LROC Articles
Probing the lunar surface using small impact craters (the main image in this article shows a small impact ray-crater immediately west of the northern "head" of Rima Birt).
Bibliography
C.A. Wood: Ancient Thebit and Huygens’s Sword, S&T, September 2000, p. 120-121
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