Geological Chronicle
Wood is an 84.15-kilometer-wide impact crater located entirely within the interior of Landau, a larger walled plain on the far side of the Moon. Situated along the northwestern part of Landau's floor, the crater lies at the approximate margin of the 530-kilometer-wide Pre-Nectarian Coulomb-Sarton Basin and shares a common northwestern rim with Landau.
The rim of Wood is somewhat worn and uneven, with the inner wall of the northwest section extending inward roughly halfway toward the midpoint. At the center rises a central peak where the infrared spectrum of pure crystalline plagioclase has been identified.
The surviving interior floor is nearly level and marked only by a few small craters, with another small crater laid across the southwest rim. Prior to its formal naming by the International Astronomical Union in 1970, Wood was called Crater 96.