Composition and evolution of the lunar crust in the Descartes highlands, Apollo 16

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Apollo 16 Flight, Ejecta, Lunar Composition, Lunar Craters, Lunar Crust, Lunar Evolution, Anorthosite, Breccia, Chemical Composition, Lunar Rocks, Tables (Data), Moon, Composition, Evolution, Crust, Descartes, Highlands, Apollo 16, Samples, Lunar, North Ray, Craters, Ejecta, Petrography, Observations, Microscope Methods, Microprobe Methods, Inaa, X-Ray Fluorescence, Models, Instrument Neutron Activation Analysis, Dating Methods, Isotopic Ratios, Argon, Rubidium, Strontium, Breccias, Classification, Comparis

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This paper provides a summary report of the 'North Ray Crater Consortium'. The considered investigation has concentrated on the samples from the Apollo 16 Stations 11 and 13 near North Ray crater. It is pointed out that the ejecta of North Ray crater, which serve as 'a window into the past', provide a unique access to a better understanding of the magmatic and impact-metamorphic evolution of the lunar highlands crust. Attention is given to the employed samples, the analytical techniques, the cataclastic anorthosites, the 'granulitic rocks', granulitic breccias, microporphyritic melt breccias, and melt breccias with micropoikilitic, intergranular, and subophitic-ophitic-intersertal matrix texture, and clast-free subophitic-ophitic-intersertal melt rocks.

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