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Jul 1975
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975moon...13..143d&link_type=abstract
(Lunar Science Institute, Symposium on Origin and Evolution of the Lunar Regolith, Houston, Tex., Nov. 13-15, 1974.) The Moon, v
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Lunar Composition, Lunar Rocks, Lunar Soil, Stratification, Fines, Fragments, Microstructure
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Although our knowledge of lunar regolith stratification is incomplete, several categories of thick and thin strata have been identified. Relatively thick units average 2 to 3 cm in thickness, and appear surficially to be massive. On more detailed examination, these units can be uniformly fine-grained, can show internal trends, or can show internal variations which apparently are random. Other thick units contain soil clasts apparently reworked from underlying units. Thin laminae average approximately 1 mm in thickness; lenticular distribution and composition of some thin laminae indicates that they are fillets shed from adjacent rock fragments. Other dark fine-grained well-sorted thin laminae appear to be surficial zones reworked by micrometeorites. Interpretations of stratigraphic succession can be strengthened by the occurrence of characteristic coarse rock fragments and the orientation of large spatter agglutinates, which are commonly found in their original depositional orientation.
Duke Michael B.
Nagle J. S.
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