The Distribution of Lunar Olivine/Troctolite Outcrops: Mineralogical Evidence for Mantle Overturn?

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Mar 1999

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30th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 15-29, 1999, Houston, TX, abstract no. 1286

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Olivine/troctolite has been identified in central peaks of 7 large
craters (of 109). This mineralogy is found only with anorthosite. The
distinctly equatoral distribution of such outcrops suggests an origin
linked to early global scale processes.

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