Proceedings Of The Tenth Lunar And Planetary Science Conference Houston Texas March 19 23 1979 Meteorites And Lunar Rocks

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March 19-23, 1979 written by and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers are presented concerning studies of lunar basalts, highland rocks, and meteorites. Specific topics include the petrology and chemistry of basaltic fragments from Apollo 11 soil; the composition, magma types and petrogenesis of Apollo 17 high-Ti mare basalts; the chemistry and probable origin of Apollo 15 green glass; experimental studies of the partitioning of nickel and chromium into olivine from synthetic basaltic melts; the petrology and geochemistry of pristine highland rocks; the argon isotope age systematics of consortium breccia 73255; magnetite-sulfide-metal complexes in the Allende meteorite; the fractionation of refractory lithophile elements in chondritic meteorites; and the origin and relation to enstatite chondrites of aubrites.