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SOME of the sinuous rilles on the Moon seem to have been formed by fluid flow, but what the fluid was is unknown. Lava1,2, ash3, water4,5, or combinations such as mud, or water under or over permafrost (refs. 6–8 and unpublished work of Hapke and Goldberg), have been suggested (Fig. 1).
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BURKE, J., BRERETON, R. & MULLER, P. Desert Stream Channels resembling Lunar Sinuous Rilles. Nature 225, 1234–1236 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251234a0
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