Plagioclase flotation and lunar crust formation
Abstract
Anorthitic plagioclase floats in liquids parental to the lunar highlands crust. The plagioclase enrichment that is characteristic of lunar highlands rocks can be the result of plagioclase flotation. Such rocks would form a gravitationally stable upper crust on their parental magma.
- Publication:
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Geology
- Pub Date:
- July 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1130/0091-7613(1977)5<425:PFALCF>2.0.CO;2
- Bibcode:
- 1977Geo.....5..425W
- Keywords:
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- Feldspars;
- Lunar Crust;
- Lunar Evolution;
- Lunar Rocks;
- Petrology;
- Chemical Composition;
- Crystallography;
- Liquidus;
- Magma;
- Phase Diagrams;
- Selenology