Poikilitic KREEP impact melts in the Apollo 14 white rocks

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Apr 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976lpsc....7.1925r&link_type=abstract

In: Lunar Science Conference, 7th, Houston, Tex., March 15-19, 1976, Proceedings. Volume 2. (A77-34651 15-91) New York, Pergamon

Physics

Apollo 14 Flight, Igneous Rocks, Impact Damage, Lunar Rocks, Petrography, Rare Earth Elements, Aluminum Oxides, Basalt, Metamorphism (Geology)

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A KREEP-rich fragment-laden melt series in the Apollo 14 white rocks is interpreted to be the result of impact into a source region possibly consisting of KREEP volcanic rock flows, underlain and surrounded by anorthositic-troctolitic highlands rocks. The melt groundmass is a high-alumina, high-K2O Fra Mauro basalt, enriched in plagioclase. A poikilitic texture is developed in the coarser members of the series, possibly as a result of the impact melt being seeded with relict plagioclase nuclei.

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