Systematic global mixing and melting in lunar soil evolution

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作者
Pieters, CM [1 ]
Taylor, LA
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[1] Brown Univ, Dept Geol Sci, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[2] Univ Tennessee, Planetary Geosci Inst, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
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10.1029/2003GL018212
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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07 ;
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[1] We present a revised model of soil evolution constrained by the recent LSCC data for lunar soils. In addition to an observed universal increase in feldspathic components in the finer fractions of soils [ Taylor et al., 2001, 2003a, 2003b], both differential melting and lateral mixing processes appear to be required during the evolution of lunar soils. We propose mare-highland mixing of a significant glass component along with a preferential melting sequence for agglutinitic glass formation of: glass > plagioclase > pyroxene much greater than ilmenite.
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