Apollo 15 regolith breccia provides first natural evidence for olivine incongruent melting

The Apollo 15 mission returned various samples of regolith breccias, typical lunar rocks lithified by impact events on the Moon’s surface. Here we report our observations on shock features recorded in a section of the Apollo Sample 15299. We observe the presence of ferropericlase crystals confined i...

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Hlavní autoři: Satta, N, Miyahara, M, Ozawa, S, Marquardt, H, Nishijima, M, Arai, T, Ohtani, E
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Mineralogical Society of America 2022