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Rutile from
Apollo 17 landing site, Taurus-Littrow Valley, The Moon


Locality type:Landing Site
Classification
Species:Rutile
Formula:TiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Apollo 17 landing site, Taurus-Littrow Valley, The Moon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:806265
Long-form Identifier:1:3:806265:9
GUID (UUID V4):36e812cd-c58e-47b4-b3a3-145ada551bb8
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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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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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high-titanium mare basalt from the Van Serg core, Apollo 17 landing site GRAHAM RYDER Lunar and Planetary...basalt picked from the drive tube collected at Van Serg crater at the Apollo 17 landing site has a bulk chemistry...high-titanium mare basalt groups collected at the site. The sample has a fine-grained olivine phyric, subophitic...high-titanium basalt samples. The grain size and texture suggest that the sample has a composition close...close to that of a magma. The crystallization sequence, with appearance of oxide minerals later than in
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- Printed in The Netherlands [21 IDENTIFICATION AND SIGNIFICANCE O F ARMALCOLITE IN THE RIES GLASS AHMED...and with the electron microprobe revealed the presence of armalcolite in impactite glasses of the Ries crater...crater. This is the first report of the occurrence of this mineral in impactite glasses and the second terrestrial...terrestrial occurrence. In the Ries impactites, armalcolite occurs only in the glasses in two distinct assemblages:...stoichiometric ilmenite, (2) with rutile. Chemistry and textures of the coexisting armalcolite-ilmenite
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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 CENTER...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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com/loi/tigr20 Exploring the Complexities of the Serenitatis Basin: Breccia Clasts from Apollo 17 a Clive R. Neal...(1998) Exploring the Complexities of the Serenitatis Basin: Breccia Clasts from Apollo 17, International...effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on...whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions...in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by
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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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Review THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON THE LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRUST AND NEW DIRECTIONS Origin of the lunar highlands...Livermore, California 94550, U.S.A. 1 Abstract The Mg-suite represents an enigmatic episode of lunar...lunar highlands magmatism that presumably represents the first stage of crustal building following primordial...This review examines the mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, chronology, and the planetary-scale distribution...explores the link between this style of magmatism and early stages of lunar differentiation. Of the models
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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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38-297 WITHDRAWN LIR-ARY SFASU Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin...COSMOCHIMICA SUPPLEMENT ACTA 7 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH LUNAR SCIENCE Houston, Texas, March CONFERENCE...wonderful worlds, the illustration of Un for GRANDVILLE including Autre Monde of the leading caricature...superb and the delights of political satirists of early nineteenth-century France, developing the art of...targets (prominent members of the French it expedient to suppress the journals in which he published
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com/locate/pss Review Article Optical measurements of the Moon as a tool to study its surface Y. Shkuratov a...2010 Received in revised form 14 June 2011 Accepted 17 June 2011 Available online 30 June 2011 This survey...general overview of modern optical studies of the Moon and their diagnostic meaning. It includes three...and polarimetry. The first one is devoted to the progress in the photometry of the Moon, which includes...determination to refine the albedo scale (e.g., to connect lunar observations and the data of lunar sample
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mahesh ANAND1,5 1 2 School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA...Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK 5 Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK 6 Current...February 2019) Abstract–Apatite and merrillite are the most common phosphate minerals in a wide range of...situ age dating, as well as for determination of the volatile abundances and their isotopic composition...set of well-studied lunar highlands samples (Apollo 17 Mg-suite rocks 76535, 76335, 72255, 78235, and
Book
Science: A Lunar Perspective STUART ROSS TAYLOR The Moon depicted in apainting by Donato Creti. Oil on...xiii.] Courtesy the Vatican Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie. This illustrates the state of planetary...planetary observation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Most of the succeeding advances in thisfield...thisfield have occurred in the past decade. Planetary Science: A Lunar Perspective STUART ROSS TAYLOR...ROAD 1 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058 Copyright @ 1982 by the Lunar and Planetary Institute. This work relates
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 99, pages 1860–1870, 2014 The Second Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust and New Directions...U.S.A. 2 Abstract In the last decade, it has been recognized that the Moon contains significant proportions...(H, F, Cl), and that they are transported through the lunar crust and across its surface. Here, we document...reflected in its analyzed abundances of F, Cl, and P. The apatite has a molar F/Cl ratio of ~10, and contains...OH and low abundances of the rare earth elements (REE). The chlorine in the apatite is isotopically heavy
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in U.S.A. The significance of fractional crystallization in the petrogenesis of Apollo 17 Type A and...analyses of 26 “new”’ Type A and B Apollo 17 basalts are reported. The petrography and mineral chemistry...previously reported Apollo 17 basalts. However, these “new” whole-rock data extend the compositional ranges...reported Type A and B basalts and require the division of the Type B basalts into Type B 1 and B2 varieties...types fall on olivine + Ti oxide control lines. The ~mposi~on~ ranges of all three groups can be effectively
Book
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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com/locate/gca Thermal history recorded by the Apollo 17 impact melt breccia 73217 M.L. Grange a,*, A...Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western...investigate the thermal history of the sample. Equant, anhedral zircon grains that probably formed in the gabbronorite...3929 ± 10 Ma, similar to the 3936 ± 17 Ma age of apatite grains found in the thin section. A combined...apatite-type-3 zircon age of 3934 ± 12 Ma is proposed as the age of the Serenitatis impact event and associated thermal
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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 © 1999...Publishing, Ltd. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2018 Textural and mineral chemical evidence for the cumulate origin and evolution of high-titanium basalt...46556, U.S.A. 1 Abstract Basalt fragment 71597 is the sole high-titanium mare basalt showing evidence for...for olivine accumulation during formation. The petrogenesis of this unique sample was investigated using...which we separate into cumulate and matrix olivine. The spatial distribution of olivine also supports clustering...be discerned (e.g., in ponded melts at the base of or in the lunar crust, or within a thick high-Ti basalt
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and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, Saint Louis...meteorites have been found in cold and hot deserts since the first one was found in 1979 in Antarctica. All are...random samples ejected from unknown locations on the Moon by meteoroid impacts. Lithologically and compositionally...lithology that is identified as KREEP on the basis of its similarity to Apollo samples of that designation. Several...they contain both anorthosite and basalt. Despite the large range in compositions, a variety of compositional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 100, pages 1668–1707, 2015 THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON THE LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRUST AND NEW DIRECTIONS...Review Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions...Mexico 87131, U.S.A. 3 Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7...California 91109, U.S.A. 6 Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7...and on the Moon, within the last several years, that have cast into question the post-Apollo view of
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Manuscript Angrite meteorites record the onset and flux of water to the inner solar system Adam R. Sarafian... Emily Sarafian PII: DOI: Reference: S0016-7037(17)30349-6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.06.001...Sarafian, E., Angrite meteorites record the onset and flux of water to the inner solar system, Geochimica et...version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting...note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all
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reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights...dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names...imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective...for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information...and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty
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ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED ATTHE 37th ANNUAL MEETING THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY AUGUST 7-9, 1974 UNIVERSITY...Anders, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 The place of origin of stony meteorites can be determined...meteorites have only 10-3 to 10-4 the solar noble gas content and 10-2 to 10-4 the surface exposure age of lunar...approximation, the relation between gas content G and surface exposure age t is given by the equation Gm/G...crate ring rate, m = moon, and p = meteorite parent body. In terms of this relation, the above differences
 
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