A new angle on lunar ferroan-suite differentiation

Details A new angle on lunar ferroan-suite differentiation A new angle on lunar ferroan-suite differentiation

Dec 1992

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In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of Magma Oceans from 1 Bar to 4 Mbar p 28-29 (SEE N92-28587

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Breccia, Geochemistry, Lithology, Lunar Craters, Lunar Rocks, Lunar Soil, Meteorites, Mineralogy, Minerals, Complex Systems, Crystals, Fractionation, Magma, Pyroxenes, Textures, Trace Elements

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Small fragments of rock found among soil particles in sample 67513 from Station 11 on the southern rim of North Ray Crater at Apollo 16 yield information regarding the mafic, ferroan rocks from which they drive. We have identified a set of particles that have distinctive trace element geochemistry and whose bulk and mineral compositions indicate a genetic relationship to one another. These include polymict as well as monomict lithologies. Igneous members range from fragments with abundant anorthite to some with abundant exsolved pigeonite and augite. Consideration of this set of rock fragments, combined with mafic ferroan clasts from large breccias and from lunar-highlands meteorites suggests that there may be separate differentiation trends within the ferroan suite which are subparallel and which are less steem in Fe-Mg vs. An fractionation that the vertical trend obtained when the entire ferroan suite is taken together. This may result from a complex magma system with isolated reservoirs or separate, independently evolving magmas. Mineral compositional and textural variations are consistent with a model set forth by Longhi and Boudreau wherein the anorthite-rich samples reflect adcumulus growth with mafic crystals forming only from trapped liquid, and the more mafic samples by anorthite and pyroxene orthocumulate development.

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