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Scientific paper
Apr 1976
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976lpsc....7..695k&link_type=abstract
In: Lunar Science Conference, 7th, Houston, Tex., March 15-19, 1976, Proceedings. Volume 1. (A77-34651 15-91) New York, Pergamon
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Abundance, Chemical Composition, Geochemistry, Lunar Soil, Neutron Activation Analysis, Basalt, Chemical Fractionation, Comminution, Gabbro, Lunar Maria, Lunar Surface, Petrography
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Results are presented for a study in which high-precision instrumental neutron activation analysis was applied to determine the abundances of seven rare-earth and nine other elements in two grain-size fractions (90 to 150 microns and less than 20 microns) of eight soils from the Taurus-Littrow Valley floor and one Apollo 11 bulk-soil fraction with grain sizes of less than 1 mm. Compositional differences between the two size fractions of two valley-floor soils are examined, and mixing of soil components is investigated. It is found that a five-component mixing model describes very adequately the chemical composition of bulk soils with grain sizes of less than 1 mm as mixtures of local Apollo 17 rock types (basalt, anorthositic gabbro, noritic breccia), orange glass, and meteorites, but does not describe well the chemical compositions of the other two size fractions. A ten-component model is used to show that the compositions of those two size fractions can be well represented as mixtures of the five components if the mineralogy and chemical composition of the basalt component are allowed to vary in the size fractions.
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