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In the preceding section of this survey we got acquainted with some of the fundamentals concerning the lunar coordinates and mapping, which should provide a basis for more detailed description of the surface of the Moon with its almost innumerable diverse features, and thus help us to understand from them the nature of the principal processes which have been shaping up its face since time immemorial.
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Bibliographical Notes
The literature devoted to a description of the prolific range of formations and markings observable on the lunar surface is truly enormous (in many languages); and any attempt at a compilation of even partial bibliography of it would fill many pages of this book. As, however, a large part of such a literature of older vintage is completely out of date, and of interest to the historian rather than to a more critical reader of the subject, anyone desirous to peruse it must do so at his own risk.
Most ground-based lunar photographs illustrating different types of lunar surface formations in this section have been secured with the 43-inch reflector and the 24-inch refractor of the Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, in the course of a collaborative programme in lunar photography between the University of Manchester and the United States Air Force.
Of investigations of the far side of the Moon, cf. Lipski (1960, 1962, 1963, 1965), Barabashev, Mikhailov and Lipski (1960), Breido and Shchegolov (1962), Markov (1962), Markov and Shchegolov (1963), with comments by Katz (1960) or Whitaker (1963).
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Kopal, Z. (1966). Formations on the Lunar Surface; Descriptive Survey. In: An Introduction to the Study of the Moon. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6320-2_16
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