X-ray digital imaging petrography of lunar mare soils: Modal analyses of minerals and glasses

Icarus

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 500-512

  Taylor, Lawrence A ^a   Patchen, Allan ^a   Taylor, Dong Hwa S ^a   Chambers, John G ^a   McKay, David S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0030527350     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0226     Document Type: Article

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