![Dorsum Oppel AS17-M-0290](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Dorsum_Oppel_AS17-M-0290.jpg)
Dorsum Oppel 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 Crisium
Mare Crisium (Latin ''crisium'', the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. The basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago.
Characteristics
Mare Cri ...
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 long and was named after the German paleontologist
Albert Oppel
Carl Albert Oppel (19 December 1831 – 23 December 1865) was a German paleontologist.
History
He was born at Hohenheim in Württemberg, on 19 December 1831. He first went to the University of Tübingen, where he graduated with a Ph.D. i ...
in 1976.
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The ridge trends north from
Yerkes crater.
Peirce and
Swift
Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to:
* SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
** SWIFT code
* Swift (programming language)
* Swift (bird), a family of birds
It may also refer to:
Organizations
* SWIFT, ...
craters lie to the east of the Dorsum.
References
Oppel
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