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Martian colles, fluctūs, and undae

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Acidalia Colles

Acidalia Colles is a 356.30-km-wide field of small hills (colles) on Mars at 50.34°N, 336.91°E in Acidalia Planitia, IAU-approved in 2000, adjoining Acidalia Mensa and noted for ice-related landforms.

Alpheus Colles

Alpheus Colles is an IAU-approved 1985 hill group (colles) on Mars, about 628 km across, forming the rough central plateau in the northwest interior of Hellas basin near 39.7S, 59.7E.

Astapus Colles

Astapus Colles: a 597-km-wide group of small hills (colles) on Mars in western Utopia Planitia, IAU-approved 1985 from a Greek albedo feature; also a Late Amazonian icy, polygonal geologic unit (ABa).

Galaxias Colles

Galaxias Colles is an IAU-approved 1985 group of hills (colles) on Mars, 610.34 km across, centered at 36.80N 147.48E near Hecates Tholus; its mesa and knobby terrain formed by degradation of ice-rich deposits, likely involving more than sublimation alone.

Galaxias Fluctūs

Galaxias Fluctūs is a 607-km fluctus (flow-like feature) on Mars at 30.96°N, 143.03°E, IAU-approved in 1985 as an albedo feature name from Antoniadi's 1930 map, in the Elysium flank Galaxias region.

Ogygis Undae

Ogygis Undae is an IAU-named dune field on Mars near Argyre Planitia (center 49.66°S, 293.79°E), about 1,904 km² in area, with barchan to star dunes and olivine-deficient basaltic sand.

Ortygia Colles

Ortygia Colles, a 255.62-km-wide group of small hills (colles) on Mars at 53.90N, 350.70E, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for the classical albedo feature Ortygia, the island of Delos.

Oxia Colles

Oxia Colles is a 595.24 km-wide group of small hills (colles) on Mars at 21.24°N, 333.73°E, named in 1985 from an albedo feature, near Oxia Planum in southern Chryse Planitia and noted for thousands of well-preserved mounds.

Simois Colles

Simois Colles, a group of low hills in the Sirenum region of Mars, IAU-named in 2013 after a Greek river god; an Eridania paleolake sub-basin with clay weathering deposits and gullies.

Syria Colles

Syria Colles, a 630-km-wide group of small volcanic hills on Syria Planum, Mars, centered near 13.46 S, 259.27 E; IAU-approved in 2015 from the classical albedo feature Syria.

Tantalus Fluctus

Tantalus Fluctus is an IAU-approved fluctus (lava flow) region on Mars in the Amazonis (mc-3) quadrangle, 794.34 km across, centered at 35.93°N, 264.32°E, approved in 1991 as an albedo feature name.

Tartarus Colles

Tartarus Colles, a 1672.69 km-wide group of hills at 21.24N 175.19E in eastern Elysium Planitia, Mars, IAU-named 1985; hosts over 40,000 rootless cones formed by lava-ground ice explosions 75-250 Ma ago.