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17. Highly Linear Fractures
PLAINS
17. Highly Linear Fractures

This is an area of plains centered at 30°N, 333°E that has an unusual set of highly linear, regularly spaced features, or lineaments, trending southwest-northeast and striking nearly perpendicular to the more prominent irregular northwest-southeast-trending fractures. These lineaments are thought to represent tension fractures, and their regularity would seem to require homogeneity in both the stress field and the crustal layer in which they formed.

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