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Armalcolite from
Apollo 16 landing site, Descartes Highlands, The Moon


Locality type:Landing Site
Classification
Species:Armalcolite
Formula:(Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Armalcolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Apollo 16 landing site, Descartes Highlands, The Moon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:397093
Long-form Identifier:1:3:397093:5
GUID (UUID V4):860dcee6-ce95-46fe-aa1b-695cfbe0135e
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undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting...formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo...version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may...discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Ā© 2019...Diffraction (XRD) and Rietveld refinement to determine the modal E- mineralogy of 118 lunar regolith samples
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for multiple 4.0ā€“3.7 Ga impact events within the Apollo 16 collection Takafumi NIIHARA 1,2,3,4*, Sky P...Abstractā€“In a histogram of lunar impact ages from the Apollo 16 site, there is a spike circa 3.9 Ga that has been...were affected slightly differently by the event that produced the Imbrium basin. To further scrutinize...similar to previously defined group 1 Apollo 16 impact melt rocks, while the other two have higher Al2O3 and...target sequences. Eighteen 40Ar/39Ar analyses of the six clasts produced an age range from 3823  75 to
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granulitic breccias from North Ray crater, Station 11, Apollo 16 R. OSTERTAG, D. STCWFLERand R. BORCHARDT Institut...of gmnulitic bmccias in the ejecta of North Ray crater, Station 11, Apollo 16 have been analyxed for...predominantly derived from ferroan anorthosites. The mineral clasts in sample 67566 wem derived from fenoan...lithologies The fine-grained gtamtlitic breccias are compositionally almost identical to the feldspathic...Station 11, Apollo 16 which are older than, and therefore are possible precumors of, the fine-g&ted granulitic
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE Volume 1: Mineralogy and Petrology GEOGHIMICA ETCpSNIQCHllyliCA AC^ China-America...una 14 DAY BOOK This book is due on or before the latest date stamped beiow MAR04ā€™86'CSUN.l^/E8 2...COSMOCHIMICA ACTA # SUPPLEMENT 5 PROCEEDINGS OE THE FIFTH LUNAR SCIENCE CONFERENCE Houston, Texas, March...THREE VOLUMES deal primarily with Earth and its Moon, but in a very real sense they are discussing,...histories of planetary bodies throughout the solar system, if not the universe. It is in this rather philosophical
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breccia 60016: Evidence for oxidized conditions at the lunar surface Katherine H. JOY1,2,3*, Channon VISSCHER4...KRING1,2 1 Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, The Lunar and Planetary Instituteā€”USRA, 3600 Bay Area...magmatic and impact bombardment processes on the Moon. Apollo 16 sample 60016 is an ā€œancientā€ feldspathic...was converted from a soil to a rock at ~3.8 Ga. The breccia contains a small (70 9 50 lm) rock fragment...(Fo66-67) are distributed in and adjacent to the Fe-oxide. The silicate minerals have lunar compositions
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The Lunar Sourcebook, a concisely presented collection of data gathered during the American and Soviet...current scientific and technical information about the Moon. This book provides a thorough introduction to...information about the nature of the lunar environment. It explores the formation and evolution of the Moonā€™s surface...surface, the chemical and mineralogical nature of lunar rocks and soils, and the current state of scientific...scientific knowledge about the nature, origin, and history of the Moon. The book is written and edited by
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elsevier.com/locate/gca Diverse impactors in Apollo 15 and 16 impact melt rocks: Evidence from osmium isotopes...Area Boulevard, Houston, TX 77058, USA Received 16 September 2014; accepted in revised form 7 February...for eleven impact related rocks from the Apollo 15 and 16 landing sites are reported and combined with...investigate the chemical nature and temporal changes in the large impactors implicated in the formation...formation of the lunar basins. Data for the samples all deļ¬ne linear trends on plots of HSE versus Ir concentrations
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Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details...lunar volcanic and impact glasses from the Apollo 17 landing site a a M. D. Norman , K.J. D. Adena &...lunar volcanic and impact glasses from the Apollo 17 landing site, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences:...Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 59:2, 291-306, DOI: 10...effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the ā€œContentā€) contained in the publications on
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J. E. Guest and R. Greeley THE WYKEHAM SCIENCE SERIES NUNC COGNOSCO EX PARTE THOMASJ. BATA LIBRARY...LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY GEOLOGY ON THE MOON The Wykeham Science Series General Editors: PROFESSOR...Formerly Senior Physics Master Uppingham School The Authors lecturer at University College, London, and...has worked extensively on the geology of Mercury and Mars as a member of the NASA Mariner 10 and Viking...a R. greeley works at the University of Santa Clara, California, and at the NASA Ames Research Center
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conspicuous dichotomy in the conventional model of lunar petrogenesis between the total intra-crustal diļ¬€erentiation...diļ¬€erentiation postulated for the products of feldspathic volcanism in the lunar highlands and the near absence of...postulated for the products of mare volcanism. Both the cumulate mantle model, and the selenotherm postulated...thermal gradients in near-solidus materials throughout the lunar mantle 4Ā·3ā€“3Ā·2 Ga ago. This should have resulted...occurred. There is no positive europium anomaly in the average lunar highland crust. That crust cannot,
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The Moon - our sister planet Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin...https://archive.org/details/moonoursisterplaOOOOcado The Moon ā€” our sister planet PETER H. CADOGAN CAMBRIDGE...ROCHELLE Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington...publication data Cadogan, Peter H. The Moon - our sister planet 1. Moon I. Title 523.3 QB581 80-41564 ISBN... Contents Preface v page vii The Moon from a distance 1 1.1 Why study the Moon? 1 1.2 Basic motion and
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ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 1 RELIMINARY S C I E N C E REPORT REPORT APOLLO 166 P PRELIMINARY SCIENCE The Moon, by the...the the Apollo on their their way way back back toto the the Earth. Earth. The The darker darker The...The Moon, as as photographed photographed by Apollo 16 16 astronauts astronauts on areas show: Mare Mare...Mare Crisium, Crisium, near near the the horizon horizon at at the the upper Marginis, right areas show:...Mare Mare Marginis. Marginis. The The far-side far-side highlands highlands are are also also visible. visible
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MINERALOGY & GEOCHEMISTRY Volume 60 NEW VIEWS of the MOON EDITORS: Bradley L. Jolliff, Mark A. Wieczorek...This book is dedicated to the memory of the late Graham Ryder, who was one of the original four members of...of CAPTEM when the New Views of the Moon scientific initiative was first conceived. Graham, who was a...owing to his broad knowledge of the lunar samples and his residence at the Lunar and Planetary Institute...where CAPTEM met, was a logical choice to be one of the co-leaders of this lunarscience initiative. Not only
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OF THE APOLLO LANDING SITE (NASA-CR-191637) GEOLOGY OF THE SITE (Lunar 17 WORKSHOP ON APOLLO 17 LANDING...LANDING Science Inst.) 70 N93-18786 --THRU-N93-18817 Unclas p G3/91 __ LPI Technical LUNAR ...77058-1113 WORKSHOP GEOLOGY ON OF THE APOLLO 17 LANDING SITE Edited by G. Ryder, H. H. Schmitt,...1992by LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE The Instituteis operatedby the University SpaceResearchAssociationunderContractNo...volume sonal research permission purposes; of the authors may be copied however, without restraint
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rises e l EE ee a eg ee os sie Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin...org/details/to rockymoongeolo0000wilh pal2 i a To a Rocky Moon 1% (geen ā€˜ i wane HEMORUM Seuss teen - dma...lunar near side, probably the most frequently used lunar chart, published by the U.S. Air Force (AcIc) in...A, Apollo landings; L, Luna landings; R, Ranger impacts; S, Surveyor landings. ā€˜Lo a Rocky Moon A Geologists...Exploration Don E. Wilhelms The University of Arizona Press Tucson & London The University of Arizona Press
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1995 Copyright Ā© 1995ElsevierScienceLtd Printedin the USA.All rightsreserved 0016-7037/95 $9.50 + .00 ...pluton on the Moon B. L. JOLL1FFand L. A. HASKIN Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell...McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA (Received October...1995) Almtract--The impact that produced North Ray Crater, Apollo 16 landing site, exhumed rocks that...that include relatively marie members of the lunar ferroan anorthositic suite. Bulk and mineral compositions
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY by JOHN. F. LINDSAY, The Lunar Science Institute, Houston, Texas, and University...AND SPACE SCIENCE, 3 The Apollo .missions to the moon provided geologists with the first samples from another...of the moon by orders of magnitude. Thus, available texts concerned with the geology of the moon were...Stratigraphy and Sedimentology" summarizes data from the Apollo missions and integrates it with earlier telescopic...observations to provide a historical geology of the moon. It deals with the subject in a way which is readily understandable
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(base of the North Massif) on the north side of the Taurus-Littrow Valley, during the Apollo 17 mission...mission. The front portion of the Lunar Roving Vehicle is visible at the left. The directional antenna (umbrella... Lunar Science: A Po st-Apollo View Scientific Results and Insights from the Lunar Samples STUART ROSS...1925Lunar science: a post-Apollo view. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Moon. I. Title. QB592.T38 1975...detail visible on the lunar surface in this near terminator photo taken during the Apollo 16 mission. View
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ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 44th ANNUAL MEETING THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY AUGUST 17-21, 1981...We have analyzed three plagioclase fractions by the 39Ar-4oAr-method: coarse plag A. 7 aggregates> I...This value agrees with the Rb-Sr-ageof4.09 Ā± .06 AE (Nyquistetal .. 1981). The Srn-Nd-isochron gives an...with the hypothesis that4.34 AE is a lower limit for the crystallization age of the norite, and the release...real event, possibly the shock. A later shock at around 3.5 AEcannot be seen in the release pattern of
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Geology: from an Earth to a planetary science in the twentieth century U R S U L A B. M A R V I N H a...Abstract: Since the opening of the Space Age, images from spacecraft have enabled us to map the surfaces of...of all the rocky planets and satellites in the Solar System, thus transforming them from astronomical...information on the evolutionary histories of other bodies and has supplied valuable new insights on the Earth... that the Earth-Moon system most likely formed as a result of a collision in space between the protoearth
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive...translated into a machine language withĀ¬ out the written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging...Printed in the United States of America 10 987654321 Preface This book is intended for use as the main textbook...space geology (astrogeology, planetary geology or the like). Although many excellent articles have been...aspects of this broad topic, the literature is badly scattered and is, for the most part, rather recent.
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ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 17 PRELIMINARY SCIENCE REPORT Apollo 17 command and service module over the Taurus-Littrow...Taurus-Littrow landing site. NASA SP-330 Preliminary Science Report PREPARED BY LYNDOI\1 B. JOHNSON SPACE...Washington, D.C. EDITORIAL BOARD The material submitted for the "Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report"...reviewed by a NASA Editorial Review Board consisting of the following members: Robert A. Parker (Chairman), Richard...right: (I) The command and service module scientific instrument module bay viewed from the lunar module
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Wii mM PLANETARY PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY The Lawrence A . Taylor 60" Birthday Volume International...Neal, and W. Gary Ernst, editors Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with funding from Kahle/Austin...GEOCHEMISTRY PLANETARY PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY The Lawrence A. Taylor 60" Birthday Volume International...Gary Ernst, editors Bellwether Publishing, Yd. tor the Geological Society of America Copyright Ā© 1999...Publishing, Ltd. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication
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PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 35th ANNUAL MEETING THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY November 16-18,1972 Chicago, Illinois...E. Grudewicz and J. To Wasson: The extralunar component in the Apollo-l6 regolith Ao J. Bauman and John...Blander, K. Keil, H. N. Planner and L. So Nelson: The origin of chondrules; o. experimental investigation...L. Eo Nyquist: Noble gas concentrations in Apollo 15 and 16 deep drill cores .. W. Vo Boynton and R. A...abundances in calcium-poor achondrites Ao Brecher: The paleomagnetic record in carbonaceous meteorites D
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Investigation of the Taurus-Littrow Valley: *j Apollo 17 Landing Site GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...behalf of the National Aeronautics ,and Space Administration The Geologic Investigation of the Taurus-Littrow...Taurus-Littrow Valley: Apollo 17 Landing Site By EDWARD W. WOLFE, NORMAN G. BAILEY, BAERBEL K. LUCCHITTA, WILLIAM...SUTTON, and HOWARD G. WILSHIRE With a section on APOLLO 17 LUNAR SURFACE PHOTOGRAPHY By RAYMOND M. BATSON...Prepared on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration A synthesis of Apollo 17 lunar surface
 
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