Discovery of stishovite in Apollo 15299 sample
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High-pressure polymorphs recovered in terrestrial craters are evidence of meteoroid impact events on the Earth’s surface. Despite countless impact craters on the Moon, high-pressure polymorphs have not been reported to date in returned Apollo samples. On the other hand, recent studies report that the high-pressure polymorphs of silica, coesite and stishovite occur in shocked lunar meteorites. We investigated regolith breccia 15299, which was returned by the Apollo 15 mission, using the combined techniques of focused ion beam (FIB), synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The regolith breccia 15299 studied here consists of a mafic impact melt breccia with mm-sized, coarse-grained, low-Ti basalt clasts. The mafic melt breccia consists of fragments of minerals (olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase, silica, and ilmenite) and glass. Several quartz, tridymite, and cristobalite grains of 10–100 μm across occur in the mafic impact melt breccia. Vesicular melt veins of less than ~200 μm wide cut across the mafic melt breccia matrix and mineral fragments. Some silica grains are entrained in the
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