Lunar Magma Ocean crystallization revisited: Bulk composition, early cumulate mineralogy, and the source regions of the highlands Mg-suite

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3024-3045

  Elardo, Stephen M ^a   Draper, David S ^a,b   Shearer, Charles K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; LUNAR CRUST; MAGMA; MELTING; OLIVINE; PETROGENESIS; PYROXENE; SPINEL;

EID: 79955468867     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.02.033     Document Type: Article

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