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All of the fully measurable impact features of the Moon that are greater than 200 km in diameter, 72 large craters and basins, are placed in a proposed sequence as an approximate measure of relative age. This sequence is compared with others in the literature that have focused on the basins (impact features over 300 km in diameter). The addition of the craters between 200 and 300 km in diameter is shown to improve the relationship to the measured density of craters with diameters greater than 20 km that have subsequently impacted the large craters and basins.
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Byrne, C.J. (2016). Generating the Sequence of Features. In: The Moon's Largest Craters and Basins. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22032-1_2
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