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It extends fully 150 miles from E. to W., and more from N. to S.; so it may be taken to include an area on the lunar globe which is, roughly speaking, equal to half the superficies of Ireland. This vast space, bounded by one of the loftiest, most massive, and prominently-terraced ramparts, includes ring-plains, craters, crater-rows, and valleys, in short, almost every type of lunar formation.
The absence of any clearly-defined craters of eruption, such as are to be found in the Eifel district and on the left bank of the Rhine as, for example, in the case of the Roderberg may be regarded as sufficient evidence that this range is of comparatively high antiquity.
"Sir, some of the stuff left in the craters from the other explosions gives off neutrons." "You're right," Rip agreed instantly. A small piece from one of the craters, when combined with half of the neutron source in the bomb, should be enough. As for the explosive, they had exploding heads on their attack rockets.
The interior has a very rugged and uneven surface, upon the N. side of which are two very distinct craters, and a short crater-row on the W. of them. It is traversed from W. to E. by three bright streaks from Tycho, two on the N. being very prominent under a high light. LONGOMONTANUS. A much larger walled-plain, S. of the last.
It is, however, impossible to deny the evidence which the lunar craters afford as to the past existence of volcanic activity on our satellite.
These basaltic mountains come, I presume, into the class of Craters of elevation: it is immaterial whether the rings were ever completely formed, for the portions which now exist have so uniform a structure, that, if they do not form fragments of true craters, they cannot be classed with ordinary lines of elevation. With respect to their origin, after having read the works of Mr.
Through vast craters and muddy shell holes and over trenches the monsters waddled along, scattering death and destruction as they advanced.
During that day we observed several violent explosions in the great stream of lava: we thought from the enormous volumes of black smoke emitted on these occasions that new craters had burst out some below the level of the Observatory; but that can hardly have been the case.
We enter what were once its streets. They are nothing now but craters with boards across them. On either side the trees lie flat along the ground, sawn through within a foot of the roots. What landmarks remain are the blackened walls of houses, cracked and crashed in by falling roofs. The entire place must have been given over to explosion and incendiarism before the Huns departed.
"I am more than ever persuaded they are breaks in the photosphere caused by eruptions of heated matter, chiefly gaseous from the interior eruptions such as might give rise to craters like that of Womla, or those of the moon, were the sun cooler.
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