Basalt from DSDP holes

45. Fission Track Chronology of Basaltic Glasses from Dsdp

Natural basaltic glasses recovered from Leg 37 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project have been dated by fission track methods. Close agreement in results indicates that the age of the oceanic crust drilled at Site 332 is 3.67 ±0.40 m.y. The age of the crust at Site 335 is less well defined, the average of the three dates obtained from this site being 14.45 ±2.27 m.y.

Water in Lunar Mare Basalt: Confirmation from Apatite in Lunar Basalt 14053

A Major KREEP-Basalt—Mare Basalt unconformity on the Moon

The lunar regolith records both the geological history and processes of the Moon and also that of particles from the Sun and galaxy. Such a record extends back to the age of the rock unit upon which the regolith is developed, but complex impact gardening and processing makes this record difficult to recover and interpret. Ancient rock units, such as lava flows, begin to have regolith developed ...

Basalt weathering across scales

Weathering of silicate minerals impacts many geological and ecological processes. For example, the weathering of basalt contributes significantly to consumption of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and must be included in global calculations of such consumption over geological timeframes. Here we compare weathering advance rates for basalt (wD β ), where D and β indicate the scale at which the r...

"Very High Alumina Basalt":

The proposal by Hubbard et al. (1) that "Very High Alumina basalt" ("VHA basalt") may represent an important primary lunar magma type neglects consideration of certain well-characterized high-magnesium highland rocks, among them spinel troctolite from Luna 20 (2) and Apollo 16 samples (3) and dunite from Apollo 17 samples (4), and the possibility that "VHA basalt" may in fact have originated by...