Experimental petrology of the Apollo 15 group A green glasses: Melting primordial lunar mantle and magma ocean cumulate assimilation

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 106, Issue , 2013, Pages 216-230

  Barr, Jay A ^a   Grove, Timothy L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; GARNET; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR MANTLE; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; ORTHOPYROXENE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; REGOLITH; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 84874313995     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.12.035     Document Type: Article

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