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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Principais autores: Satta, N, Miyahara, M, Ozawa, S, Marquardt, H, Nishijima, M, Arai, T, Ohtani, E
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Mineralogical Society of America 2022

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