The most reduced rock from the moon, Apollo 14 basalt 14053: Its unique features and their origin

American Mineralogist

Volumn 89, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 1617-1624

  Taylor, Lawrence A ^a   Patchen, Allan ^a   Mayne, Rhiannon G ^a   Taylor, Dong Hwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BINARY ALLOYS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RUBIDIUM ALLOYS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS;

DEGREE OF REDUCTION; HYDROGEN REDUCTION; IMPACT EJECTA; MESOSTASIS; REE CONTENT; SUBSOLIDUS; UNIQUE FEATURES; WIND HYDROGENS;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; MARE BASALT; MOON; REDUCTION;

EID: 11144288095     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2004-11-1205     Document Type: Article

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