Lithification of vitric - and clastic-matrix breccias: SEM petrography

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Date
1976
Authors
Phinney, William C.
Simonds, Charles H.
McKay, David S.
Warner, Jeffrey L.
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Publisher
Pergamon Press
Abstract
Matrix textures of 41 lunar breccias ranging from very friable soil clods through coherent microbreccias and tough vitric breccias to tough, fine-grained crystalline breccias were examined petrographically by means of the scanning electron microscope.
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Keywords
Lunar surface samples, Lunar petrology, Breccia
Citation
Proc. Lunar Sci. Conf. 7th (1976), p. 2469-2492.