Cryptomaria List

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Suspected Cryptomaria List


Suspected cryptomaria from: New Views of the Moon, p 434, but ultimately from Antonenko, 1999.
Note: These names - such as Smythii - don't mean that Mare Smythii is a cryptomare, but that there is buried mare material near it.

Name
Area
Thickness
Volume
Age

(10^5 km ^2)
(m)
(10^5 km^3)
(by)
Schiller-Schickard
3.6
400
1.5
3.8-3.92
Humorum
2.3
450
1.0
3.8-3.92
Procellarum
0.35
400
0.15
3.8-3.92
Australe
6.4
500
3.2
3.8-4.0
Balmer
1.7
400
0.68
3.87-4.1
East Frigoris
3.7
400
1.5
3.8-3.92
Langemak
4.0
400
1.6
3.92-4.1
Smythii
2.0
400
0.8
3.8-3.84
Taruntius
0.87
600
.52
~3.8
SPA*
2.5
400
1
3.63-4.1
Mendel-Rydberg
0.31
400
.12
3.8-3.92
Marginis
0.29
400
.12
3.8-4.1
Marginis
0.67
400
.27
3.87-4.1
Lomonosov-Fleming
0.52
400
.21
3.8-4.0
Hercules
0.62
400
0.25
>3.2
Tsiolkovsky
.50
400
0.20
3.2-4.0
Korolev
0.95
400
0.38
3.4-4.04
Humboldtianum
0.21
400
0.084
3.8-3.87
Humboldtianum
1.12
400
0.45
3.87-3.92
Maurolycus
1.6
400
0.64
3.87-3.92
Milne
0.92
500
0.46
3.92-4.0
Mendeleev
0.53
400
0.21
3.2-3.9

  • SPA = South Pole-Aitken Basin