Experimentally reproduced textures and mineral chemistry of Apollo 15 quartz normative basalts
Experimentally reproduced textures and mineral chemistry of Apollo 15 quartz normative basalts
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1974
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Lofgren, Gary E.
Donaldson, Colin H.
Williams, Richard J.
Mullins, Jr., Oscar
Usselman, Thomas M.
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Pergamon Press
Abstract
An analog of the Apollo 15 quartz-normative basalts (also called pyroxene-phyric basalts) has been experimentally crystallized at a variety of linear cooling rates between 1250 and 1°C/hr at one atmosphere total pressure and oxygen fugacities close to those ascribed to lunar rocks.
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Basalt
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Proceedings of the Fifth Lunar Conference (Supplement 5, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta) Vol. 1 pp. 549-567 (1974)