4-643: Dorsa Burnet are wrinkle ridges at 28°24′N 57°00′W / 28.4°N 57.0°W / 28.4; -57.0 in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon . They are about 194 km long and were named after Thomas Burnet by the IAU in 1976. The dorsa draw near the southwest end of the Montes Agricola , and curve around the western Aristarchus plateau . The craters Schiaparelli , Golgi , and Zinner lie to
8-453: The lava cooled and solidified. They frequently outline ring structures buried within the mare, follow circular patterns outlining the mare, or intersect protruding peaks. They are sometimes called veins due to their resemblance to the veins that protrude from beneath the skin. Wrinkle ridges are named with the Latin designation dorsum (plural dorsa ). The standard IAU nomenclature uses
12-855: The names of people (generally scientists) to identify wrinkle ridges on the Moon. For example, the Dorsa Burnet are named for Thomas Burnet , and the Dorsum Owen is named after George Owen of Henllys . Wrinkle ridges can also be found on Mars , for example in Chryse Planitia , on several of the asteroids that have been visited by spacecraft, on Mercury , and certain moons of Jupiter and Saturn . Although several hypotheses have been advanced as causes of wrinkle ridges, today they are generally considered to be of tectonic origin. They involve folding and faulting . If correctly interpreted as thrust faults, where
16-400: The west. This article related to the Moon is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wrinkle ridge A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria , or basalt plains. These features are low, sinuous ridges formed on the mare surface that can extend for up to several hundred kilometers. Wrinkle ridges are tectonic features created after
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