Lick is a lunar

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Impact crater

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 that has been flooded with basalt

Basalt

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ic lava

Lava

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. The north rim is attached to the smaller, bowl-shaped crater Greaves

Greaves (crater)

Greaves is a small lunar impact crater that lies near the southwest edge of Mare Crisium. It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation with a small interior floor at the center of the sloping inner walls. The crater is intruding into the northern edge of the lava-flooded crater Lick...

. Lick lies on the southwest edge of Mare Crisium

Mare Crisium

Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. This basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago. This mare is in diameter, and 176,000 km2 in area. It has a very flat floor, with a ring of wrinkled ridges...

. Its rim is broken at the north and south ends, and the southwest rim is attached to the crater remnant Lick A. There is a small, flooded crater within the southern part of Lick's inner floor, and several tiny craters mark the interior surface.

This crater was named in memory of James Lick

James Lick

James Lick was an American carpenter, piano builder, land baron, and patron of the sciences. At the time of his death, he was the wealthiest man in California, and left the majority of his estate to social and scientific causes.-Early years:James Lick was born in Stumpstown Pennsylvania on August...

, a Californian philanthropist

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Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Lick.

Lick	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	11.5° N	52.8° E	23 km
B	11.2° N	51.4° E	24 km
C	11.5° N	52.0° E	9 km
E	10.6° N	50.7° E	8 km
F	10.1° N	50.2° E	22 km
G	10.1° N	50.9° E	5 km
K	10.2° N	52.8° E	6 km
L	8.7° N	49.0° E	5 km
N	9.7° N	47.9° E	23 km

The following craters have been renamed by the IAU

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• Lick D — See Greaves
  Greaves (crater)
  Greaves is a small lunar impact crater that lies near the southwest edge of Mare Crisium. It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation with a small interior floor at the center of the sloping inner walls. The crater is intruding into the northern edge of the lava-flooded crater Lick...
  
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