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Science 26 September 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3900, pp. 1349 - 1352
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3900.1349
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Bed Forms in Base-Surge Deposits: Lunar Implications

R. V. Fisher 1 and A. C. Waters 2

1 Department of Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara 931006
2 Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz 95060

Undulating dunelike deposits of surface debris, widespread over parts of the lunar landscape, are similar in form but greater in size than base-surge deposits found in many maar volcanoes and tuff rings on Earth. The bed forms of base-surge deposits develop by the interaction of the bed materials with those in the current passing overhead. Therefore the "patterned ground" produced differs from that formed by ballistic fallout.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Morphology and Related Chemistry of Small Lunar Particles from Tranquillity Base.
D. S. McKay, D. S. McKay, W. R. Greenwood, and D. A. Morrison (1970)
Science 167, 654-656
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