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Moon Engineer Special Study Generalized Photogeologic Map

April 1961 (approx.)

Detailed Description

Eugene Shoemaker's prototype Copernicus geology map. Was never formally published and printed sparingly in April 1961. Identifies five stratigraphic "systems". Pre-Imbrian, Imbrian, Procellarian, Erastothenian, and Copernican systems. It would later be discovered that this was to simplistic. 

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.