Regolith breccia Allan Hills A81005 - Evidence of lunar origin, and petrography of pristine and nonpristine clasts

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Sep 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983georl..10..779w&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 10, Sept. 1983, p. 779-782.

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Achondrites, Breccia, Lunar Evolution, Lunar Rocks, Petrography, Regolith, Chemical Composition, Meteoritic Composition, Pyroxenes, Meteorites, Antarctic Meteorites, Allan Hills Meteorites, Alha81005, Moon, Origin, Description, Physical Properties, Characteristics, Source, Petrography, Comparisons, Samples, Meteorite, Regolith, Breccias, Clasts, Mineralogy, Texture, Glass, Composition, Matrix

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It is shown that the ratios of MnO/FeO in pyroxene, texture (abundant brown and swirly glass, which are typical of lunar regolith breccias) and overall composition (approximately 75 percent plagioclase) indicate a lunar origin for the regolith breccia Allan Hills A81005, presumably from an unsampled region of the moon. The rock is found to differ in detail from other regolith samples; for example, it has exceptionally low contents of Na and KREEP. In addition, a pristine clast is found to contain exceptionally coarse augite in comparison with similar Apollo samples. It is found that ALHA81005 is not perceptibly more shocked than typical Apollo regolith breccias. It is concluded that the discovery of this rock on earth strengthens the suggestion that SNC achondrites were derived by impact ejection from Mars.

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