Apollo 15 green glasses
Abstract
Apollo 15 breccia 15427 and soils 15101, 15261 and 15301 contain abundant spheres and fragments of a green glass that is remarkably constant in composition. The glass is rich in Fe and Mg, and low in Ti, unlike any known lunar basalt, and may be derived from material of pyroxenitic composition in the Apennine Front.
- Publication:
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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
- Pub Date:
- June 1973
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0031-9201(73)90002-2
- Bibcode:
- 1973PEPI....7..133R