List of features:- Dorsum

The 190-kilometer long wrinkled ridge of Dorsum Zirkel on the Moon, as captured by Apollo 15 from orbit.
(Credits: NASA / James Stuby)

Dorsum Zirkel
Wrinkles are tectonic features formed
by compressive stresses on the lunar surface.


Name – Name Origin / Latitude Longitude / Dimension km / miles / map (from USGS)

Dorsum Arduino – Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) / 24.9°N 35.8°W / 107 km / 67 miles / map
Dorsum Azara – Felix Manuel de Azara (1746-1811) / 26.7°N 19.2°E / 105 km / 66 miles / map
Dorsum Bucher – Walter Hermann Bucher (1889-1965) / 31.0°N 39.0°W / 90 km / 56 miles / map
Dorsum Buckland – William Buckland (1784-1856) / 20.4°N 12.8°E / 380 km / 238 miles / map
Dorsum Cayeux – Lucien Cayeux (1864-1944) / 1.6°N 51.2°E / 84 km / 53 miles / map
Dorsum Cloos – Hans Cloos (1885-1951) / 1.0°N 91.0°E / 100 km / 63 miles / map
Dorsum Cushman – Joseph Augustine Cushman (1881-1949) / 1.0°N 9.0°E / 80 km / 50 miles / map
Dorsum Gast – Paul Werner Gast (1930-1973) / 24.0°N 9.0°E / 60 km / 38 miles / map
Dorsum Grabau – Amadeus William Grabau (1870-1946) / 29.4°N 15.9°W / 121 km / 76 miles / map
Dorsum Guettard – Jean-Etienne Guettard (1715-1786) / 10.0°S 18.0°W / 40 km / 25 miles / map
Dorsum Heim – Albert Heim (1849-1937) / 2.0°N 29.8°W / 148 km / 93 miles / map
Dorsum Higazy – Riad Higazy (1919-1967) / 28.0°N 17.0°W / 60 km / 38 miles / map
Dorsum Nicol – William Nicol (1768-1851) / 18.0°N 23.0°E / 50 km / 32 miles / map
Dorsum Niggli – Paul Niggli (1888-1953) / 29.0°N 52.0°W / 50 km / 32 miles / map
Dorsum Oppel – Albert Oppel (1831-1865) / 18.7°N 52.6°E / 268 km / 168 miles / map
Dorsum Owen – George Owen (1552-1613) / 25.0°N 11.0°E / 50 km / 32 miles / map
Dorsum Scilla – Agostino Scilla (1639-1700) / 32.8°N 60.4°W / 108 km / 68 miles / map
Dorsum Termier – Pierre-Marie Termier (1859-1930) / 11.0°N 58.0°E / 90 km / 56 miles / map
Dorsum Thera – Greek feminine name / 24.4°N 31.4°W / 7 km / 4 miles / map – not available
Dorsum Von – Cotta Carl Bernard von Cotta (1808-1879) / 23.2°N 11.9°E / 199 km / 124 miles / map
Dorsum Zirkel – Ferdinand Zirkel (1838-1912) / 28.1°N 23.5°W / 193 km / 121 miles / map
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Moon Map – Lists of features

The Moon’s surface is covered in many interesting geological features,
in addition to mountains, valleys and craters.
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Catena  –  chain of craters
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Dorsa  – wrinkle-ridge systems

Dorsum  –  wrinkle-Ridge

Lunar Seas & Ocean – Maria
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Lacus  –  lake

Palus  –  marshes

Promontorium  –  cape or headland

Rima  –  rilles
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Rimae  –  rille systems

Rupes  –  escarpments

Sinus  –  bay
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Terra  –  seas

Vallis  –  valleys
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Named Features – scale maps

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