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May 1999
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 385-391 (1999).
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We report the noble gas isotopic abundances of five dimict breccias and one cataclastic anorthosite that were collected at the Apollo 16 landing site. Orbital and surface photographs indicate that rays from South Ray crater, an almost 1 km wide young crater in the Cayley plains, extend several km from their source into the area that was sampled by the Apollo 16 mission. Previous studies have shown that South Ray crater formed 2 Ma ago and that a large number of rocks might originate from this cratering event. Based on cosmic-ray produced nuclei we find that the six rocks investigated in this work yield the same lunar surface exposure age. Using literature data we recalculate the exposure ages of additional 16 rocks with suspected South Ray crater origin and obtain an average exposure age of 2.01+/-0.10Ma. In particular, all nine dimict breccias, a type of rock essentially restricted to the Apollo-16 area consisting of anorthosite and breccia phases, dated until now yield an average ejection age of 2.06+/-0.17 Ma. We conclude that they must originate from the Cayley formation or from bedrock underlying the Cayley plain. We determined the gas retention ages for the dimict breccias based on the 40K-40Ar and U,Th- 136Xe dating methods: rock 64425 yields a 40K-40Ar age of 3.96 Ga and rock 61016 a U,Th- 136Xe age of 3.97 Ga. These results, together with 39Ar-40Ar ages, obtained by other workers for rocks 64535 (3.98 Ga) and 64536 (3.97 Ga) show that the dimict breccias formed 3.97 Ga ago.
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