Luna 24 ferrobasalt as a low-Mg primary melt

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Nov 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980m%26p....23..271n&link_type=abstract

Moon and the Planets, vol. 23, Nov. 1980, p. 271-292.

Computer Science

Basalt, Crystallization, Earth Core, Lunar Probes, Melts (Crystal Growth), Petrography, Planetary Evolution, Magma, Magnesium

Scientific paper

The fractional crystallization model for the petrogenesis of the Luna-24 very-low-titanium ferrobasalt is critically evaluated. Arguments are presented that show there is no real evidence favoring either surface of shallow subsurface differentiation of an Mg-rich primary magma; instead there is ample evidence suggesting such is not the case. It is therefore concluded that surface or near-surface fractionation of olivine from a primary vitrophyre/green glass magma did not produce the ferrobasalt composition. The ferrobasalt did not exist as a residual liquid within a differentiated flow, but rather was extruded as a melt in its own right.

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