Rille

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4490.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4490. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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A long narrow depression on the Moon's surface. There are several types. Linear rilles (or straight rilles), forked rilles and arcuate rilles are mostly graben—flat-bottomed strips of land that have collapsed between a pair of parallel fault lines. As their names imply, they may be straight or arc-shaped, and are often associated with large impact features. Examples are those named Rimae Merseniu...

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