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


Locality type:Landing Site
Classification
Species:Cristobalite
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cristobalite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Apollo 16 landing site, Descartes Highlands, The Moon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:742666
Long-form Identifier:1:3:742666:7
GUID (UUID V4):9d7522b0-f266-4d14-8a1d-5c4fa749f1a9
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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. © 2019...Diffraction (XRD) and Rietveld refinement to determine the modal E- mineralogy of 118 lunar regolith samples
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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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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 Moon’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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(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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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 MAR04’86'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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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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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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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive...translated into a machine language with¬ 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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104, pages 370–384, 2019 Spinel-anorthosites on the Moon: Impact melt origins suggested by enthalpy constraints...spectra of the Moon have delineated regions where spinel is the only ferromagnesian mineral; the rock is...spinel-bearing rocks form by low-pressure assimilation of highlands anorthosite into olivine-rich basaltic (i.e.,...evaluate the heat (i.e., enthalpy) required for this assimilation process. Magma compositions are the picritic...picritic Apollo 14 B green glass and an estimation of the magma parental to Mg-suite cumulate rocks. From
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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 — 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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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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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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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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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 ± .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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Antarctic Meteorites (1976–2010) A Pictorial Guide to the Collection Kevin Righter Catherine M. Corrigan Timothy...Harvey Editors This work is a copublication between the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons...between the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published under the aegis of the AGU Publications...Blakely, Vice Chair, Publications Committee © 2015 by the American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue,... N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009 For details about the American Geophysical Union, see www.agu.org. Published
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September 5, 2008, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will fly by the main-belt asteroid...good constraints of the asteroid’s physical characteristics were measured before the encounter. Observations:...characteristics and determine the most likely meteoritic analogue. Given that the rotation period of this asteroid...each hemisphere of the asteroid. An examination of the spectra demonstrates that the asteroid has a significant...addition, previous investigators have determined that the albedo of Steins is ~0.30–0.55 [2, 3]. This suggests
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fiscal year 1971, accompanied by short papers in the fields of geology, hydrology, and related sciences...WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...hydrologic investigations in progress, and a report on the status of topographic mapping UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E. McKelvey, Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing
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Society, 1988. Printed in USA Abstracts of the 51st Meeting of the Meteoritical Society Fayetteville, Arkansas...preferentially under special conditions (1, 8). On the ion probe, SiC shows large isotopic variations for...7). The SiC grains are older than the solar system, but apparently not by much (3, 9). C,-SiC, the carrier...which :oS 5% comes from the recent cosmic-ray exposure ofthe meteorite. The rest, if cosmogenic, corresponds...age of 41 (+ 20, -14) Ma (9), much shorter than the estimated mean lifetime of refractory interstellar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 45th ANNUAL MEETING THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY SEPTEMBER 13-16,1982...probes of the petrogenesis of natural rock systems because they yield direct information about the chemical...nature of the fluid present in the system at some stage in its history, and place constraints on the rock's...would be especially important in the study of meteorites because the lack of a geologic context for meteorites...Surprisingly, fluids in chondrites have the same properties as those in the diogenite achondrite. These include:
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two new eucrites, Dhofar 007 from the Oman desert and NWA 011 from the Sahara desert. Based on chemical...region, Oman, and a single stone of 40 g was found in the Sahara in 1999. Achondrite Dhofar 007 is monomictic...phases: pigeonite (FS~~-*, Wo3-'J and augite (FS=-~~. The ratio Mgl(Mg + Fe) is 0.59, F a n = 34 (atomic),...abundances show a distinct positive Eu anomaly and the content of Sm is 0.67 ppm (Fig. 1). Northwest Africa...pigeonite (Fs,-,, WO,~ and augite (Fs43-50.Wo30-38).The ratio Mg/(Mg + Fe) is 0.34, F eN n = 69 (atomic)
Report (issue)
hydrologic investigations in progress and a report on the status of topographic mapping UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...WASHINGTON, D.C.: 1977 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Congress catalog-card No. 68-46150 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing...volume of the Geological Survey Research Series will come to it primarily to learn about the progress...or in a group of fields that are closely related. The Geological Survey Research series serves another
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FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. “The real voyage of discovery is not the search for new landscapes, but...quotation of M. Proust outlines quite well the intention of the project introduced here. So far seven structures...in Finland rank as proven impact structures [ 11. The variability of previously applied methods of investigation...have yielded valuable information about the character of the investigated impact structure. A common...locatable, either in two or in three dimensions. This is the starting point for a Geographic Information System
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ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 47th ANNUAL MEETING THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY JULY 30-AUGUST 2, 1984...Bishunpur (LU), Tieschitz (H3) and other u.o.c.s, The mean chemical composition for dark rim and matrix...Tieschitz are similar to the 'opaque matrix' of Huss et al. (1981). However, the mean dark rim compositions...K, Al and Si than opaque interchondrule matrix. The 'opaque matrix' of Huss et al. (1981) essentially...ATEM. The interchondrule matrix is dominated by opx (- En60) and olivine (- Fo6O), similar to the mean
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1.01 Origin of the Elements J. W. Truran, Jr. and A. Heger University of Chicago, IL, USA 1.01.1...1 Hydrogen burning 1.01.4.1.2 Helium burning and the s-process 1.01.4.1.3 Hydrogen and helium shell burning...Explosive nucleosynthesis 1.01.4.1.8 The p-process 1.01.4.1.9 The r-process 1.01.5 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE:...galaxies, stars and supernovae play the dominant role both in synthesizing the elements from carbon to uranium...heavyelement-enriched matter to the interstellar gas from which new stars are formed. The mass fraction of our solar
 
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