Geochemistry of HASP, VLT, and other glasses from double drive tube 79001/2

Details Geochemistry of HASP, VLT, and other glasses from double drive tube 79001/2 Geochemistry of HASP, VLT, and other glasses from double drive tube 79001/2

Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992ga17.conf...29l&link_type=abstract

In Lunar Science Inst., Workshop on Geology of the Apollo 17 Landing Site p 29-31 (SEE N93-18786 06-91)

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Chemical Composition, Geochemistry, Glass, Highlands, Lunar Craters, Lunar Geology, Lunar Maria, Lunar Rocks, Regolith, Aluminum Oxides, Basalt, Breccia, Electron Probes, Kreep, Microanalysis, Silicon Dioxide, Spectroscopic Analysis, Trace Elements

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The Apollo 17 double drive tube 79001/2 (station 9, Van Serg Crater) is distinctive because of its extreme maturity, abundance, and variety of glass clasts. It contains mare glasses of both high Ti and very low Ti (VLT) compositions, and highland glasses of all compositions common in lunar regolith samples: highland basalt (feldspathic; Al2O3 greater than 23 wt percent), KREEP (Al2O3 less than 23 wt percent, K2O greater than 0.25 wt percent), and low-K Fra Mauro (LKFM; Al2O3 less than 23 wt percent, K2O less than 0.25 wt percent). It also contains rare specimens of high-alumina, silica-poor (HASP), and ultra Mg glasses. HASP glasses contain insufficient SiO2 to permit the calculation of a standard norm, and are thought to be the product of volatilization during impact melting. They have been studied by electron microprobe major-element analysis techniques but have not previously been analyzed for trace elements. The samples analyzed for this study were polished grain mounts of the 90-160 micron fraction of four sieved samples from the 79001/2 core (depth range 2.3-11.5 cm). A total of 80 glasses were analyzed by SEM/EDS and electron microprobe, and a subset of 33 of the glasses, representing a wide range of compositional types, was chosen for high-sensitivity INAA. A microdrilling device removed disks (mostly 50-100 micron diameter, weighing approx. 0.1-0.5 micro-g) for INAA. Preliminary data reported here are based only on short counts done within two weeks of irradiation.

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