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The Iapygia quadrangle, in the equatorial region of Mars just north of the Hellas basin, is mainly ancient, hilly, and cratered upland terrain. The southern one-third of the quadrangle is dominated by mountain and knobby materials representing mountains of pre-Hellas material and material related to the Hellas basin and mappable in a 500-km-wide zone circumjacent to it. The northeast...

The Ismenius Lacus quadrangle includes the northernmost extension of the crated highlands that occupy a major part of the southern martian hemisphere. It includes three prominent physiographic provinces: cratered highlands in the south, relatively featureless plains in the middle, and mottled plains in the north. The highlands are separated from the plains by a belt of dissected terrain

Basic information about the planetary surface of the Kuiper quadrangle is provided by three sequences of high-quality photographs designated Mercury I, II, and II, obtained during the incoming phases of three encounters of the Mariner 10 spacecraft with Mercury. Mercury I includes 75 whole-frame photographs of the Kuiper quadrangle; Mercury II, 13 whole-frame photographs; and Mercury III...

The Langrenus quadrangle is on the east limb of the lunar nearside, at the southeast margin of Mare Fecunditatis. The crater Langrenus, about 140 km in diameter, is the most prominent feature. Rugged terra materials, scattered by craters of various sizes and ages, occupy much of the east half of the map area, and smooth mare materials in the Fecunditatis basin dominate the west. Mare...

The Lavinia Planitia quadrangle (V-55) is in the southern hemisphere of Venus and extends from 25 degrees to 50 degrees south latitude and from 330 degrees to 360 degrees longitude. It covers the central and northern part of Lavinia Planitia and parts of its margins. Lavinia Planitia consists of a centralized, deformed lowland flooded by volcanic deposits and surrounded by Dione Regio to...

Mars presents two different terrains, a highly cratered surface that lies mostly in the southern hemisphere and sparsely cratered plains that lie mostly in the northern hemisphere. The cause of the dichotomy is a still unsolved fundamental problem of Martian geology, analogous to the problem of continents and ocean basins in terrestrial geology. The present features of the plains in...

The Macrobius quadrangle is in the northeast quadrant of the Moon's near side. Although predominantly a highland area centered around the Taurus Mountains (Montes Taurus), it is bounded by three major mare-filled basins: Tranquillitatis, the oldest, to the south; Serenitatis to the west; and Crisium on the east. Most of the geologic units within the quadrangle have been profoundly...

The Mare Boreum geologic map portrays the north polar are of Mars above lat 65 degrees N. The area contains five physiographic provinces: (1) a residual ice cap characterized by troughs with a counterclockwise outward spiral pattern (Mariner 9 frames DAS 13317550 and DAS 13353320); (2) layered terrain adjacent to the ice cap, exposed within the spiral troughs; (3) a circumpolar band of...

The Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle is bounded by lat 0 degrees and 30 degrees S. and long 225 degrees W. and 270 degrees W. The central part of the quadrangle is dominated by Tyrrhena Patera, a large shield volcano, and associated low-albedo ridged plains that probably are basaltic lava flows similar to the lunar maria. The western, northern, and eastern margins of the quadrangle are located...

The map area contains two mare provinces, one terra province, and one province of mixed mare and terra. The maria are the semicircular southern half of Mare Crisium and the northeast sector of Mare Fecunditatis. The massive belt of terra that arcs across the quadrangle between these maria is the south rim of the Crisium multiringed basin; its southwest part is probably superposed on an...

The Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle lies within a broad north-sloping trough, the Chryse lowland, between the elevated Tharsis plateau to the west and the cratered upland to the east. The rugged, uniquely martian chaotic terrain is best developed in this quadrangle. Sinuous furrows a few kilometers wide and as much as several hundred kilometers long cover most of the quadrangle; in several...

Although geologic mapping fo the Moon has its own techniques and problems, systematic observation and the application of established geological principles have allowed the materials and structures of its surface to be delineated and classified into units (Shoemaker and Hackman 1962; McCauley 1967; Wilhelms, 1970). Most of these units are material entities similar to terrestrial rock...