Journey to the Center of the Regolith, Revisited: Mineral Chemistry of Ferroan Anorthosites from Drive Tube 68001/68002

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Anorthosites: Ferroan, Basalt, Magma Oceans: Lunar, Melts: Impact, South Ray Crater

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Mineral-chemical and petrographic observations of three "new", rather large (0.536 to 1.362 g), ferroan anorthosites are presented. These anorthosites appear to be texturally pristine and will be analyzed for their trace- element compositions. One of the anorthosites has a significant (10-15 vol%) proportion of mafic minerals that occur in clots throughout the sample. In light of the paucity of age information on ferroan anorthosites, this sample will be carefully evaluated for further chemical and isotopic studies. One other sample is roughly basaltic in texture, contains abundant armalcolite, and has a composition that is consistent with an impact melt. Another sample is a polymict breccia containing fragments of microgabbros, an ilmenite gabbro, and a troctolite.

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