Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 27 July 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4097, pp. 339 - 342
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4097.339
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Chemistry of Lunar Basalts with Very High Alumina Contents

Norman J. Hubbard 1, J. Michael Rhodes 2, and Paul W. Gast 3

1 NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas 77058
2 Lockheed Electronics Company, Inc., Houston, Texas 77058
3 NASA Manned Spacecraft Center

A chemically distinct group of lunar rocks with the trace element characteristics of basaltic lunar rocks is apparently ubiquitous on the lunar surface. Such rocks have been found at the Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Luna 20 landing sites. They may be derived from the plains-forming material that has been designated Cayley Formation.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
"Very High Alumina Basalt": A Mixture and Not a Magma Type.
E. Dowty, M. Prinz, and K. Keil (1974)
Science 183, 1214-1215
   PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)