Quenching and disruption of lunar KREEP lava flows by impacts

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Dec 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988natur.336..751r&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 336, Dec. 29, 1988, p. 751-754. Research supported by NASA.

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Igneous Rocks, Kreep, Lava, Lunar Rocks, Basalt, Chemical Composition, Glass, Impact, Meteorites, Quenching

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The Apollo 15 KREEP basalts are thought to be volcanic rocks, based on their petrographic characteristics, chemical variations and geological context. The author reports the results of a re-examination of their petrography. Several of them contain yellow residual glasses which cross-cut the crystallized phases; some show more extreme disruption. The features of the glasses appear to be compatible only with impact disruption, ejection and quenching from actively crystallizing flows, indicating a high impact flux immediately after the impact that formed the Imbrium basin.

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