Plagioclase flotation and lunar crust formation

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Jul 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977geo.....5..425w&link_type=abstract

Geology, vol. 5, July 1977, p. 425-428. Research supported by Harvard University;

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Feldspars, Lunar Crust, Lunar Evolution, Lunar Rocks, Petrology, Chemical Composition, Crystallography, Liquidus, Magma, Phase Diagrams, Selenology

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Anorthitic plagioclase floats in liquids parental to the lunar highlands
crust. The plagioclase enrichment that is characteristic of lunar
highlands rocks can be the result of plagioclase flotation. Such rocks
would form a gravitationally stable upper crust on their parental magma.

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