| Catalogue | Name | Lat_dec | Long_dec | Size_maj_source | Rükl Chart | Lunar Chart | Comments | Gaddis 1985 | Gauss Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | 36 | 79 | 30 | 16 | Sq. area = 350 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Several small, elongated craters, aligned along floor fracture." | Gaddis 1985 | Messala Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | 39 | 60 | 30 | 16 | Sq. area = 700 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Several small, aligned semicircular craters." | Gaddis 1985 | Franklin Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | 39 | 48 | 56 | 15 | I841, Lac27 | Sq. area = 1,000 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "A series of aligned elongated craters on crater floor." | Gaddis 1985 | Altas Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | 47 | 45 | 87 | 15 | I841, Lac27 | Gaddis: Associated with: "Elongate craters aligned along fractures at floor-fractured crater." | Gaddis 1985 | Bohnenberger Mantle Localized Deposit | -16 | 40 | 9 | 58 | I720, Lac97 | Sq. area = 75 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Elongated craters aligned along crater floor fracture." | Gaddis 1985 | Nectaris Northeast Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | -12 | 38 | 20 | 47 | I714, Lac79 | Sq. area = 250 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Two short rilles with source depression." | Gaddis 1985 | Aristoteles East B Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | 50 | 35 | 50 | 6 | Sq. area = 575 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Small fracture with elongated craters (no host crater)." | Gaddis 1985 | Taurus-Littrow Dark Mantle Region | 20 | 30 | 200 | 24 | I489, Lac42 | Sq. area = 4,000 km. Gaddis: Associated with "Rille with source depression near Littrow." | Gaddis 1985 | Aristoteles East A Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | 50 | 28 | 40 | 6 | Sq. area = 1,000 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Partially filled irregular depression (no host crater)." | Gaddis 1985 | Sulpicius Gallus Dark Mantle Region | 20 | 10 | 300 | 23 | I489, Lac42 | Sq. area = 6,000 km. Gaddis: Associated with "kidney shaped depression, several irregular depressions and sinuous rilles." | Gaddis 1985 | Vaporum Dark Mantle Region | 10 | 7 | 50 | 34 | I548, Lac59 | Designation in Head ambiguous. See Lac59. Sq. area = 10,000 km. Gaddis: Associated with "Rima Hyginus to SE and several smaller rilles." | Gaddis 1985 | Palus Putredinis Dark Mantle Region | 25 | 0 | 75 | 22 | I463, Lac41 | Sq area = 2,800 km. Gaddis: Associated with "Rimae Hadley and fractures radial and concentric to Mare Imbrium." | Gaddis 1985 | Rima Bode Dark Mantle Region | 13 | -3 | 100 | 33 | I548, Lac59 | Designation in Head ambiguous. See Lac59. Sq. area = 10,000 km. Gaddis: Associated with "two rilles, to N and S (neither appears to be source)." | Gaddis 1985 | Alphonsus Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | -13 | -4 | 100 | 44 | I566, Lac77 | Sq. area = 80 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Dark-halo craters aligned along fractures of floor-fractured crater." | Gaddis 1985 | Southern Sinus Aestuum Dark Mantle Region - East | 5 | -7 | 100 | 32 | I548, Lac59, I515, Lac58 | Designation in Head ambiguous. See Lac59 and Rükl 32. Sq. area = 30,000. Gaddis: Associated with "Several small sinuous rilles and numerous dark-halo craters." | Head 1976 | Southern Sinus Aestuum Dark Mantle Region -West | 6 | -15 | 75 | 32 | I515, Lac58 | Designation in Head ambiguous. See Lac58 and Rükl 32. | Gaddis 1985 | Mt. Carpatus Dark Mantle Region | 15 | -25 | 50 | 31 | I515, Lac58 | Sq area = 2,500 km. Gaddis: Associated with "Several short sinuous rilles with source depressions, some coalesced-crater chains, and numerous dark halo craters." | Gaddis 1985 | Humorum Dark Mantle Region | -30 | -40 | 100 | 52 | I495, Lac93 | Head designation is ambiguous. See Doppelmayer formation on Geologic Lunar Chart I495 and Lac93. Sq. area = 3,000 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Rima Hyginus to SE and several smaller rilles." | Gaddis 1985 | J. Herschel Dark Mantle Localized Deposit | 62 | -41 | 50 | 2 | I604, Lac11 | Sq. area = 700 km. Gaddis: Associated with: "Coalesced dark-halo craters aligned along fractures of floor-fractured crater." | Gaddis 1985 | Montes Harbinger Dark Mantle Region | 26 | -42 | 100 | 19 | I465, Lac39 | Sq area = 5,400 km. Gaddis: Associated with "numerous small rilles with source depressions." | Gaddis 1985 | Aristarchus Dark Mantle Region | 24 | -48 | 200 | 18 | I465, Lac39, I527, Lac38 | Sq area = 37,400 km. Gaddis: associated with "Vallis Schroteri (very large sinuous rille) and numerous smaller rilles with source depressions ('cobra head' rilles)." |
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Regional dark mantle deposits (DMR) have areas greater than 1,000 km^2; localized dark mantle deposits (LDMD) have areas less than 1,000 km^2. Position of Montes Harbinger DMR is corrected from Gaddis.
Where Head or Gaddis designations are ambiguous, consult LAC color-coded charts. Semi-major axis size based on rough Rükl chart take-offs; region designation from Gaddis 1985 except for Southern Sinus Aestuum Dark Mantle Region - West, which is in Head 1976. For distribution maps, see Figure 9 in Gaddis 1985 and Figure 2 in Head 1976.
Gaddis, L.R., Pieters, C.M. and Hawke, B.R. 1985. Remote Sensing of Lunar Pyroclastic Mantling Deposits. Icarus 61:461-489 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985Icar...61..461G
Head, J. 1976. Lunar volcanism in space and time. 1976RvGSP..14..265H http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1976RvGSP..14..265H
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