The petrogenesis of the Apollo 14 high-Al mare basalts

American Mineralogist

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1521-1535

  Neal, Clive R ^a   Kramer, Georgiana Y ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Apollo 14 high al basalts; Assimilation; Basalt petrogenesis; Fractional crystallization; Granite; KREEP; Mare basalts; Moon

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; MOON; PETROLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ASSIMILATION; BASALT PETROGENESIS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH AL; KREEP;

BASALT;

BRECCIA; CLAST; LUNAR CRUST; MARE BASALT; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; OLIVINE; PETROGENESIS; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 33845628955     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.2147     Document Type: Article

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