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Title: The mechanics of the moon : dedicated to the astronomers and astrophysicists
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Schindler, Robert
Subjects: Lunar theory Celestial mechanics
Publisher: Lucerne, Switzerland : The author
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FIG. 10 of the Mare Crisium l)y the sAVollen massesare considered, it seems, that hetween thesemasses and the formation of the mare a 48 CONCERNING THE TOPOGEAPHY OF THE MOON. causal connection existed just as the preser-vation of the heat caused the formation ofthe mare and favoured their extension.
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FIG. 11 Fig. 11 shows the interesting geneticformation of the Petavius. There is no CONCERNINO THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE MOON. 49 other ol)ject where tlie interrupted activityis shown so clearly, and in which the laterinfusion seems to he iml)edded like a crackedl)late. The continual trickling through gavethe surface a convex form and in themiddle is a numher of attempted out-rushings,suppressed by the cooling. Since the dis-covery of the deluge, it is clear to me, howin the plain of the Piccolomini the flow ofthe magma flooded the mound in a north-westerly direction, as is shown in this picturever)^ clearh\ Fig. 12. Al)ove is the Clavius, fullof ruins, below the new formation of theTyclio. In the whole South of the moonthere is no large object spared b)^ the deluge.All here visil)le (not ruin-like formations) wereformed after the deluge and are of insig-niflcant size. Although at the Clavius thecurrents show clearly, the principal effectof the destruction lays in the melting inconsequenc

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