Systematic global mixing and melting in lunar soil evolution

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Oct 2003

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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 20, pp. PLA 1-1, CiteID 2048, DOI 10.1029/2003GL018212

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Mineralogy And Petrology: Major Element Composition, Mineralogy And Petrology: Planetary Mineralogy And Petrology, Planetary Sciences: Erosion And Weathering, Planetary Sciences: Surface Materials And Properties, Planetology: Solar System Objects: Moon (1221)

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We present a revised model of soil evolution constrained by the recent LSCC data for lunar soils. In addition to an observed universal increase in feldspathic components in the finer fractions of soils [Taylor et al., 2001, 2003a, 2003b], both differential melting and lateral mixing processes appear to be required during the evolution of lunar soils. We propose mare-highland mixing of a significant glass component along with a preferential melting sequence for agglutinitic glass formation of: glass > plagioclase > pyroxene >> ilmenite.

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