Northwest Africa 032: Product of lunar volcanism
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Crystallization of Lunar Basaltic Meteorites Northwest Africa 032 and 479: Preservation of the Parent Melt Composition and Relationship to Lap
Introduction: Only 5 meteorites were classified into unbrecciated lunar mare basalt so far, although there are about 40 lunar meteorites known to date. NWA 032 and its paired meteorite NWA 479 (NWA) are such crystalline mare basalts, and show a porphy-ritic texture composed of euhedral olivine and pyrox-ene grains with dendritic mesostasis of pyroxene, pla-gioclase and accessory minerals (ilmen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Meteoritics & Planetary Science
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1086-9379,1945-5100
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00822.x