Dorsum Cushman
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Dorsum Cushman is a
wrinkle ridge A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria, or basalt plains. These features are low, sinuous ridges formed on the mare surface that can extend for up to several hundred kilometers. Wrinkle ridges are tectonic features cr ...
at in Mare Fecunditatis on the
Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
. It is 86 km long and was named after American micropaleontologist
Joseph Augustine Cushman Joseph Augustine Cushman (January 31, 1881 – April 16, 1949) was an American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist. Biography He was born on January 31, 1881 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the son of Darius and Jane (Fuller) Cushm ...
in 1976.


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