Experimental and petrological constraints on lunar differentiation from the Apollo 15 green picritic glasses

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 515-527

  Elkins Tanton, Linda T ^a   Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^b   Grove, Timothy L ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOON; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; VOLCANIC GLASS;

EID: 0141723671     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00024.x     Document Type: Article

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