Introduction: Basaltic rocks available for laboratory study include samples from the Earth, Moon, Mars and at least seven asteroids – the parent bodies of eu-crites (probably 4 Vesta), angrites, mesosiderites, and Shock Effects in Retrieved Lunar Rocks: None of the shock effects in Apollo samples were produced during launch of these rocks off the lunar surface. Consequently , most Apollo mare b...

Introduction – Lunar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 032 is an unbrecciated mare basalt, discovered in 1999, whose modal mineralogy is characterized by phenocrystic olivine, pyroxene and chromite, with a groundmass containing feldspar, pyroxene, ilmenite, troilite and other trace metals [1]. Shock melt occurs in veins throughout the sample as well. Fagan et al. [1] observed that the major elem...

Lithium concentrations and isotopic compositions of coexisting olivine and clinopyroxene (cpx) in well-characterized peridotite xenoliths from Tok (SE Siberian craton) and samples from two other far-east Russian localities reveal strong elemental and isotopic disequilibria, which correlates with bulk rock composition. Lithium concentrations in cpx from Tok (1–12 ppm) are equal to or significant...

Variations of oxygen isotope ratios in arc-related lavas can constrain trace-element enrichment in a mantle source being fluxed by addition the contributions of subducted crustal igneous rocks, sediments, and of aqueous fluid. Comparison of this model with observed variations fluids to the sub-arc mantle. We have measured oxygen isotope in the geochemistry of lavas from the Vanuatu–Fiji–New Cal...

The multispectral images of the lunar limb and farside obtained by the solid state imaging (SSI) system on board the Galileo spacecraft provide the first new pulse of compositional data of the Moon by a spacecraft in well over a decade. The wavelength range covered by SSI filters (0.4-1.0 }•m) is particularly sensitive to the composition of mare basalts, the abundance of mafic (ferrous) mineral...

Titanium-rich clinohumite and layered structure minerals are observed in kimberlite and as inclusions in pyropic garnets from the Moses Rock dike, a kimberlite-bearing breccia dike in San Juan County, Utah. Associated clinopyroxenes observed as inclusions within similar pyropes and also in kimberlite are estimated to have equilibrated at depths ranging from about 50 to 150 km at modest temperat...