Lunar soil 15601 has been studied petrographically using grain size analysis, modal analysis, and electron probe microanalysis of monomineralic fragments in the 90-150-micron size fraction. The soil is immature; the grain size distribution is unimodal and very symmetrical, indicating that the soil is a homogeneous product of a single set of processes. It is concluded that 15601 is mostly a simple Apollo 15 mare basalt soil, and its properties can be used to approximate an end product of the array of complex soils that the lunar sample missions have returned.
Petrography of lunar soil 15601
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 1980 ; Houston, TX
1980-01-01
Sonstige
Keine Angabe
Englisch
A lunar and planetary petrography experiment.
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