A transient heating event in the history of a highlands troctolite from Apollo 12 soil 12033

Details A transient heating event in the history of a highlands troctolite from Apollo 12 soil 12033 A transient heating event in the history of a highlands troctolite from Apollo 12 soil 12033

Feb 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985lpsc...15..421m&link_type=abstract

(Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA, American Geophysical Union, et al., Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 15th, Houston,

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Apollo 12 Flight, Breccia, Lunar Soil, Olivine, Transient Heating, Ejecta, Feldspars, Glass, Lunar Craters, Mineralogy, Moon, Transient Events, Heating, History, Highlands, Ejecta, Source, Troctolite, Samples, Lunar, Apollo 12, Soil, 12033, Clasts, Mineralogy, Glass, Description, Texture, Formation, Experiments, Thermal Effects, Temperature, Cooling, Procellarum Oceanus, Copernicus

Scientific paper

A 2-mm particle, consisting of a troctolite clast attached to a small amount of glassy soil breccia, was found in a thin section of grains from Apollo 12 sample 12033,66. A description is given of the evolutionary history of the troctolite, taking into account the unique texture. It appears that the particle was broken from its parent rock and projected to Oceanus Procellarum from a source area in the highlands. Before, during, or after the flight, the troctolite was welded to a soil breccia by a minor amount of melting along the contact. It is argued that two separate heating events may be involved. The hypothesis is considered that the partial remelting and quenching of the troctolite took place very rapidly. Attention is given to melting experiments which test and confirm this hypothesis.

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