Lunar glass compositions - Apollo 16 core sections 60002 and 60004

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Dec 1975

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 28, no. 2, Dec. 1975, p. 234-240.

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Abundance, Apollo 16 Flight, Basalt, Core Sampling, Glass, Lunar Soil, Anorthosite, Lunar Maria, Lunar Surface, Potassium, Rare Earth Compounds

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Approximately 500 glasses between 1 mm and 125 microns in size have been analyzed from fourteen samples from the Apollo 16 core sections 60002 and 60004. The majority of glasses have compositions comparable to those found in previous studies of lunar surface soils; however, two new and distinct glass compositions that are probably derived in part from mare material occur in the core samples. The major glass composition in all samples is that of Highland Basalt glass, but it also appears that high-K Fra Mauro Basalt (KREEP) glass is more common at the Apollo 16 site than was previously thought. The relative abundance of glasses within the core samples is random in distribution: each sample is characterized by a particular assemblage and distribution of the constituent glass compositions.

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