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Glass from
Luna 24 landing site, Mare Crisium, The Moon


Locality type:Landing Site
Classification
Species:'Glass' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kamaciteⓘ4 photos of Glass associated with Kamacite at this locality.
Anorthiteⓘ2 photos of Glass associated with Anorthite at this locality.
Ytterbiumⓘ2 photos of Glass associated with Ytterbium at this locality.
Sylviteⓘ2 photos of Glass associated with Sylvite at this locality.
Haliteⓘ2 photos of Glass associated with Halite at this locality.
Molybdenumⓘ2 photos of Glass associated with Molybdenum at this locality.
BastnĂ€site-(Ce)ⓘ2 photos of Glass associated with BastnĂ€site-(Ce) at this locality.
Chromferideⓘ2 photos of Glass associated with Chromferide at this locality.
Augiteⓘ1 photo of Glass associated with Augite at this locality.
Ulvöspinelⓘ1 photo of Glass associated with Ulvöspinel at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Glass data
Locality Data:Click here to view Luna 24 landing site, Mare Crisium, The Moon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:677073
Long-form Identifier:1:3:677073:0
GUID (UUID V4):3dad823e-10c3-4372-961b-82bab9c7dbb6
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4934, 2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 â«č .00...1016/j.gca.2005.05.017 Volcanism in Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Crisium: Ar-Ar age studies VERA A. FERNANDES*... 2005) Abstract—The laser 40Ar/39Ar dating technique has been applied to five Luna 16 basalt fragments...fragments and one impact glass, and nine Luna 24 basalt fragments and one breccia. The textures of these basalts...fine-grained ophitic and coarse-grained basalts. The samples contain high levels of solar and lunar atmospheric
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in The Netherlands 39Ar-4°Ar SYSTEMATICS OF TWO MILLIMETER-SIZED ROCK FRAGMENTS FROM MARE CRISIUM...L24B,a glass-richagglutinate (1.9 mg) and L24A, a fine-grained lithic fragment (9.4 mg), from the Luna...24 landing site have been neutron irradiated for the purpose of a9Ar-4OArdating. A fairly well-defined...was found for the larger fragment. After appropriate corrections the composition of the trapped and spallogenicAr...be deciphered. The evolutionof 38Arsp/37Arshowed that 660 m.y. and 500 m.y. were the most reliable exposure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regolith, 71501,262: A record of impact events and mare volcanism in lunar glasses N. E. B. ZELLNER1, J...dated with the 40Ar/39Ar dating method. We report here the first isotopic age obtained for the Apollo 17...record ages ranging from 102 ± 20 Ma to 3740 ± 50 Ma. The compositions of these impact glasses show that some...events within the Apollo 17 region, whereas others appear to be exotic to the landing site. As the data sets...of lunar impact glasses increase, the impact history in the Earth-Moon system will become better constrained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Laser argon-40-argon-39 age determinations of Luna 24 mare basalts RAY BURGESS* AND GRENVILLE TURNER Department...dedicated to the memory of Paul Barringey) Abstract-The ages of seven rock fragments from the soil fraction...fraction of the Luna 24 con: have been determined using a laser 4oAr-39Ar stepped heating technique. The investigated...basalt, metabasalts and a regolith breccia. Most of the samples contain nonradiogenic Ar components of variable...agrams from which the age and 36Ar/40Arvalue of trapped Ar can be determined. The ages obtained span
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/epsl The global distribution of calcium on the Moon: Implications for high-Ca pyroxene in the eastern...eastern mare region N. Yamashita a,b,c,n, O. Gasnault a,b, O. Forni a,b, C. d’Uston a,b, R.C. Reedy c, Y....September 2012 The ïŹrst unambiguous global distribution of Ca on the Moon has been revealed by the Kaguya Gamma-Ray...Gamma-Ray Spectrometer. The observation of the 3737 keV gamma rays from 40Ca with a high energy resolution...While the derived Ca abundance generally conïŹrms the mare-highland dichotomy, we found that the eastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chronology and petrogenesis along the eastern limb of the Moon from Luna 16,20 and 24 samples B. A. COHENI, G....Abstract-Eighteen new lithic fragments from the Soviet Luna missions have been analyzed with electron microprobe...microprobe and 4OAr-39Ar methods. Luna 16 basalt fragments have aluminous compositions consistent with...wellconstrained ages (3347 & 24 Ma, 342 1 f 30 Ma). These data, combined with other Luna 16basalt ages, imply...there were multiple volcanic events filling Mare Fecunditatis. The returned basalt fragments have relatively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in U.S.A. + .oO The lunar regolith: Chemistry and petrology of Luna 24 grain size fractions J...Academy of Sciences, Moscow, U.S.S.R. ‘Institute for the Study of Mineral Deposits, South Dakota School of...(ReceivedJuly 24, 1986; accepted in revisedform December9, 1986) Abstract-Chemical data are reported for the first...two Luna 24 soils, 24 176 and 242 14. Consistent with our previous results for lunar soils, the compositions...each other but quite different from the tine fractions (~10 am). The finer fractions (lo-5,5-2, <2 pm)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
low-titanium basalt deduced from the iron isotopic signature in Luna 16, 20, and 24 soils Satoki Okabayashi,...low-titanium basalt deduced from the iron isotopic signature in Luna 16, 20, and 24 soils, Geochimica et Cosmochimica...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amsterdam - Printed in The Netherlands [61 DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF LUNA 24 DRILL CORE SOIL SAMPLES...1979 Six soil samples from various depths of the Luna 24 drill core column have been analysed for their...compositions. The observed particle track records indicate higher degree of maturity for the upper zone...regolith column as compared to the soils in the lower zone (-0.4 m). The cosmogenic 21Ne concentrations...decrease rapidly with depth to 1 m, after which the concentrations level off or increase slightly. These
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
key to resolving the relationship(s) between mare basalts and lunar picritic glasses. The clast is basaltic...body from a very-low-titanium (VLT) basaltic magma. The estimated bulk composition of clast 15295,100 is...VLT picritic green glasses, especially the Apollo 14 A green glass. From these similarities, we infer that...magma similar to the Apollo 14 A glass. Clementine and M3 remotely sensed data of the lunar surface were...100, not only near the Apollo 15 site, but in a broad region surrounding the site. Two regions are consistent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/gca Testing the relation between UV–vis color and TiO2 content of the lunar maria JeïŹ€rey J....context. To this end, the ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) color ratio, used to estimate the TiO2 composition...composition of mature mare basalts, has been one of the most widely used spectral parameters in lunar exploration...exploration. We examine the correlation between UV–vis color and TiO2 content using a combination of Clementine...data to document the extent to which color is dependent upon TiO2. Examination of the remotely sensed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2019. Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Geokhimiya, 2019, No...Olivines of Lunar Rocks: Sources and Localization in the Lunar Crust S. I. Demidovaa, *, M. O. Anosovaa, *...highland, mare, and mingled meteorites and in “Apollo-14”, “Luna-16, -20, -24” lunar samples. The olivines...possible sources of P-bearing olivine were found in the lunar material: 1) highland anorthositic–noritic–troctolitic...to high-Mg suite rocks: 2) late-stage products of mare basalts crystallization; and 3) unusual olivine–orthopyroxene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA 4 The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL ⁄ Birkbeck, The Joint UCL-Birkbeck Research... WC1E 6BT, UK 5 IARC, Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London, Cromwell Road, SW7...2010; revision accepted 03 February 2012) Abstract–The feldspathic lunar meteorites contain rare fragments...pyroxene TiO2 and the mineral-melt Ti distribution coefïŹcient. Overall, most of the basalt fragments are...sensing of the moon (both UV-Vis from Clementine, and gamma ray from Lunar Prospector). However, the distribution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accepted in revised form .-Iugusr 2. 199 1 ) Abstract-The new lunar meteorite MAC88 105 has been studied by...mineral-chemical techniques and was compared with the Yamato lunar meteorites. Clast types and pyroxene...are not as common as in other lunar meteorites. The large and common granulitelike me&igneous clasts...crystals with fine-grained olivine and pyroxenes in the interstices. Pyroxenes with mg number = Mg X lOO/(...zoning trends more Mg-rich than the above mg range and than those of the VLT basalts common in lunar meteorites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
breccia Northwest Africa 7948 and implication for the lithologic components of lunar crust Xiaojia ZENG...14 December 2017) Abstract–This study presents the petrography, mineralogy, and bulk composition of...as well as regolith components (volcanic glass and impact glass). A compositionally unusual metal-rich...Apollo regolith breccias. Comparing the bulk composition of the meteorite with remotely sensed geochemical...suggests that the sample was derived from a region of the lunar surface distal from the nearside Th-rich
Report (issue)
; ,: &. THE 0: ?$? $ W -^ U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348 *w COVER The region of...of the Imbrium and Serenitatis basins during six episodes of lunar history. From lower right to upper...upper left, the paintings depict the Moon's surface as it may have looked (1) late in the Nectarian Period;...Period; (2) in the Early Imbrian Epoch, soon after formation of the Imbrium basin; (3) late in the Early Imbrian...Imbrian Epoch; (4) in the Late Imbrian Epoch; (5) in the Eratosthenian Period; and (6) as it is today Paintings
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2012; revision accepted 05 November 2012) Abstract–The Northwest Africa (NWA) 2996 meteorite is a lunar...clasts contain clusters of apatite, suggesting that the anorthosites either assimilated evolved rocks or...around the South Pole Aitken (SPA) basin, peripheral regions of eastern mare, Nectaris, Crisium, and southern...of Mare Humorum. However, the mineralogy of NWA 2996 is distinctive compared with Apollo and Luna mission...samples, and is likely consistent with an origin near the SPA basin: anorthosite clasts could represent local
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Implications for composition of the global lunar surface, lunar crust, and the bulk Moon Paul H. WARREN Institute...significant implications for the interpretation of global Th data and for the Moon’s bulk composition. As...(Prettyman et al. 2002), the Lunar Prospector gamma-ray data imply that the average global surface Th...calibration yields implausibly high concentrations for the three most Th-poor documented sampling sites, it...in a misfit toward too-high Th when compared with the global regolith Th spectrum as constrained using
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Characterization of multiple lithologies within the lunar feldspathic regolith breccia meteorite Northeast...Katherine H. JOY1,2,3,4,5, and Ian A. CRAWFORD1,6 1 The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL-Birkbeck, Gower...Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London, UK 4 The Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, The Lunar...3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, Texas 77058, USA 5 The NASA Lunar Science Institute 6 Department of Earth...Corresponding author. E-mail: J.Snape@ucl.ac.uk 2 (Received 24 May 2010; revision accepted 08 June 2011) Abstract–Lunar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1111/maps.12597 High crustal diversity preserved in the lunar meteorite Mount DeWitt 12007 (Victoria Land...2015; revision accepted 10 November 2015) Abstract–The meteorite Mount DeWitt (DEW) 12007 is a polymict...clasts, feldspathic clasts, impact and volcanic glass beads, basaltic clasts, and mingled breccia clasts...interspersed). The presence of tranquillityite, coupled with the petrophysical data, the O-isotope data...data (D17O = 0.075), and the FeOtot/MnO ratios in olivine (91), pyroxene (65), and bulk rock (77) indicate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2019) doi: 10.1111/maps.13295 The early geological history of the Moon inferred from ancient lunar meteorite...breccia that provides insights into the early magmatic history of the Moon. MIL 13317 is formed from a mixture...for ~835  84 Myr, at an average depth of ~30 cm. The fusion crust has an intermediate composition (Al2O3...ppm) chemical component. Taking the fusion crust to be indicative of the bulk sample composition, this...originated from a regolith that is associated with a mare-highland boundary that is KREEP-rich (i.e., K, rare
Report (volume)
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)
–3518, 2003 Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $30.00 â«č .00...Environmental Research, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Nakanoku, Tokyo, 164-8639, Japan...clasts. The matrix consists mainly of smaller mineral fragments (⬍0.5 mm), bound by glassy cement, the majority...majority of which are pyroxene and plagioclase. The pyroxene possesses extensive exsolution lamellae. These...are atypical for mare-basalts. One of the distinguishing textures of EET 96008 is the presence of small
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mingled impact melt breccia from the highlands—A complete cross section of the lunar crust S. E. ROBERTS 1...impact melt breccia contains abundant impact melt glass and clasts as large as 0.75 mm. Clasts are predominantly...Mg-suite, and gabbronorite lithologies as defined by the Apollo sample collection. Clasts representing magnesian...in this meteorite. Whole rock and in situ impact glass measurements indicate low incompatible trace element...mineralogy although pyroxferroite grains are present. The juxtaposition of evolved, basaltic clasts without
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright c 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/97 $17.00 + .OO...effort to elucidate the processes of lunar mantle melting, and the magma evolution of mare basal& within Oceanus...Oceanus Procellarum on the western lunar near-side, we have analyzed seven finegrained to vitrophyric...represent all three main groups identified among the Apollo 12 mare basalts and have been proposed as parental...pigeonite-, and ilmenite-basalts. The sources for these low-Ti mare basalts are postulated to have formed
 
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