Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1970
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1970natur.225..716w&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 225, Issue 5234, pp. 716-717 (1970).
Physics
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Scientific paper
THE holocrystalline rocks from the Apollo 11 landing site in Mare Tranquillitatis characteristically contain vesicles and vugs1 which must have been maintained by an internal gas pressure balancing the overburden pressure. Although the landing site may contain rare fragments from distant craters1, the common rock types of the Apollo 11 sample are probably of local origin. There are no craters closer than about 50 km which could have excavated samples from more than a few hundred metres depth. The groundmass grain size of the holocrystalline rocks, which is from 0.1 to 1.0 mm, and up to 3 mm in vuggy areas1, also suggests extrusive or hypabyssal crystallization for these rocks. Crystallization probably took place at depths greater than a few centimetres and no more than two kilometres. The total pressure, which was equal to the gas pressure in the vesicles and vugs of the Apollo 11 rocks, was therefore between 0.01 and 100 atmospheres.
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