Ferroan anorthosite - A widespread and distinctive lunar rock type

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Nov 1974

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974e%26psl..24...15d&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 24, no. 1, Nov. 1974, p. 15-25.

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Anorthosite, Lunar Rocks, Mineralogy, Apollo 15 Flight, Apollo 16 Flight, Lunar Crust, Lunar Evolution, Microstructure

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Eight of eleven Apollo 16 rake-sample anorthosites are very similar to each other, to hand-specimen Apollo 16 anorthosites, and to Apollo 15 anorthosites. They have feldspar An-96.6, both high- and low-Ca pyroxene with a restricted range of (low-magnesium) composition, minor olivine, traces of ilmenite and chromite, and originally coarse-grained, but now cataclastic texture. Such ferroan anorthosite is evidently a coherent, distinctive and widespread lunar rock type of cumulate origin which may not necessarily be very closely related genetically to other highland rock types.

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