The mechanics of the moon : dedicated to the astronomers and astrophysicists . ict known l)y the large long furroAvsAvhich run through the connecting valleybetween the Sinus Medii and the Mare Ya-porum. The furrows show, that the valleyitself was over-run by a deluge breakingthrough from the Altai-mountains. TheTriesnecker, Horrocks and Ukert in additionto some smaller craters are new, nearly allother parts Avere reduced to ruins. Thedirection of the deluge can be traced every-Avhere. From a genetical point of vicAv theHyginus furrow belongs rather to the Tries-necker valley than to
The mechanics of the moon : dedicated to the astronomers and astrophysicists . ict known l)y the large long furroAvsAvhich run through the connecting valleybetween the Sinus Medii and the Mare Ya-porum. The furrows show, that the valleyitself was over-run by a deluge breakingthrough from the Altai-mountains. TheTriesnecker, Horrocks and Ukert in additionto some smaller craters are new, nearly allother parts Avere reduced to ruins. Thedirection of the deluge can be traced every-Avhere. From a genetical point of vicAv theHyginus furrow belongs rather to the Tries-necker valley than to the Mare Yaporum. Fig. 16 is a continuation of the pre-ceding. The craters Alpetragius, Herschel,Laland, Mosting and some smaller ones wereformed after the deluge; this can be recog-nised very easily. All other parts are par-tially destroyed as in the former the direction of the tiood in view,we have not \o\vj: to studv how the mounds 54 CONCERNING THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE MOON. of the Ptolemaeus and Alphons lost theircircular formation and became shapes resem-. FIG. 15 bling hexagons. The supposition of a normaltype of polygonal forms is from geneticalreasons to be rejected Avith all positiveness. CONCERNING THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE MOON. 55 Fiii*. 17. While the two former pic-tures .showed the destructions caused l)y
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