Volcanic glass signatures in spectroscopic survey of newly proposed lunar pyroclastic deposits
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Volcanic glass signatures in spectroscopic survey of newly proposed lunar pyroclastic deposits
Moon Mineralogy Mapper spectroscopic observations are used to assess the mineralogy of five sites that have recently been proposed to include lunar dark mantle deposits (DMDs). Volcanic glasses have, for the first time, clearly been identified at the location of three of the proposed pyroclastic deposits. This is the first time that volcanic glasses have been identified at such a small scale on...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2169-9097
DOI: 10.1002/2013je004537