On the structure of mare basalt lava flows from textural analysis of the LaPaz Icefield and Northwest Africa 032 lunar meteorites

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-17

  Day, James M D ^a   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; LAVA FLOW; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR METEORITE; MARE BASALT; PETROGRAPHY; PHENOCRYST; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURE;

EID: 33846415041     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00213.x     Document Type: Article

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