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Dorsum Oppel is a
- The ridge trends north from Yerkes crater. Peirce and
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 ...
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. Mare Crisium is a basin of Nectarian age. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that fill ...
on the Moon
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. 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.- The ridge trends north from Yerkes crater. Peirce and
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craters lie to the east of the Dorsum.
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