Mineral compositions in pristine lunar highland rocks and the diversity of highland magmatism
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Bersch, Michael G.
Taylor, G. Jeffrey
Keil, Klaus
Norman, Marc D.
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High precision electron microprobe analyses of olivine and pyroxene in pristine lunar highland rocks confirm the dichotomy between ferroan anorthosites and the Mg‐suite. Ferroan‐anorthosites plot as coherent trends, consistent with formation in a complex global magma system. Lack of coherent compositional trends in the Mg‐suite rocks indicates derivation from numerous magmas.
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Geophysical Research Letters
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