SIMS U-Pb dating of micro-zircons in the lunar meteorites Dhofar 1528 and Dhofar 1627OPEN ACCESS
Bidong Zhang, Yangting Lin, Jialong Hao, Devin L. Schrader, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Randy L. Korotev, William K. Hartmann, Audrey Bouvier MAPSVersion of Record online: 19 September 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “About half of the…
Dhofar 1769—Clear indications for repeated mixing of impact melt lithologiesOPEN ACCESS
Addi Bischoff, Mike Komnik, Jakob Storz, Jasper Berndt MAPS,First published: 17 July 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The lunar regolith breccia Dhofar 1769, which was found in 2012 as a single 125 g piece in…
Mass-dependent nickel isotopic variations in achondrites and lunar rocks
Shui-Jiong Wang, Shi-Jie Li, Yangting Lin, Si-Zhang Sheng Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 11 April 2023 LINK “We present high-precision mass-dependent nickel isotopic data for a comprehensive suite of achondrites and…
The Lunar Breccia Dhofar 1442: Noble Gases, Nitrogen, and Carbon Released by Stepwise Combustion and CrushingOPEN ACCESS
E. V. Korochantseva, A. B. Verchovsky & A. V. Korochantsev Geochemistry International, Volume 60, pages 1192–1206Published: 08 December 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Stepwise crushing and combustion methods were applied to study the KREEP-rich…
Apollo 15 regolith breccia provides first natural evidence for olivine incongruent melting
Niccolò Satta, Masaaki Miyahara, Shin Ozawa, Hauke Marquardt, Masahiko Nishijima, Tomoko Arai, Eiji Ohtani American Mineralogist (2022) 107 (9): 1661–1667 LINK “The Apollo 15 mission returned various samples of regolith breccias, typical lunar rocks lithified…
Widespread tissintite in strongly shock‐lithified lunar regolith breccias
Ai‐Cheng Zhang, Qin‐Ting Jiang, Naotaka Tomioka, Yan‐Jun Guo, Jia‐Ni Chen, Yang Li, Naoya Sakamoto, Hisayoshi Yurimoto Geophysical Research LettersFirst published: 06 February 2021 LINK “Shock‐lithification is a fundamental process of making rocks from fine‐grained and…
Ages of lunar impact breccias: limits for timing of the Imbrium impact
Alexander A. Nemchin, Tao Long, Bradley L. Jolliff, Yusheng Wan, Joshua F. Snape, Ryan Zeigler, Marion L. Grange, Dunyi Liu, Martin J. Whitehouse, Nicholas E. Timms, Fred Jourdan GeochemistryIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24…
The end of the lunar dynamoOPEN ACCESS
Saied Mighani, Huapei Wang, David L. Shuster, Cauȇ S. Borlina, Claire I. O. Nichols, Benjamin P. Weiss Science Advances 01 Jan 2020: Vol. 6, no. 1, eaax0883 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0883 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Calcium Isotopic Composition of the Lunar Crust, Mantle, and Bulk Silicate Moon:A Preliminary Study
Wei Wu, Yi-Gang Xu, Zhao-Feng Zhang, XinLi Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta LINK “Calcium isotopes have the potential to explore genetic links between the Moon and Earth. Here, we constrain calcium isotopic composition of the bulk…
Origin of lunar fragmental matrix breccias—Highly siderophile element constraints
Philipp Gleißner, Harry Becker Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 19 July 2019 LINK “Ejecta at North Ray crater (Apollo 16) sampled a unique section of the lunar highlands not accessible at most other landing…
U‐Pb SIMS ages of Apollo 14 zircon: Identifying distinct magmatic episodes
F. Thiessen, A. A. Nemchin, J. F. Snape, M. J. Whitehouse Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 12 June 2019 LINK “U‐Pb ages of zircon in four different Apollo 14 breccias (14305, 14306, 14314, and…
Terrestrial-like zircon in a clast from an Apollo 14 breccia
J.J. Bellucci, A.A. Nemchin, M. Grange, K.L. Robinson, G. Collins, M.J. Whitehouse, J.F. Snape, M.D. Norman, D.A. Kring Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 510, 15 March 2019, Pages 173-185 LINK “Highlights • Unique felsite…
Pb-Pb ages of feldspathic clasts in two Apollo 14 breccia samples
A.A. Nemchin, H. Jeon, J.J. Bellucci, N.E. Timms, J.F. Snape, M.R. Kilburn, M.J. Whitehouse Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 August 2017 LINK “Pb-Pb isochron ages of ca. 3.92 Ga…
Annealing of radiation damage in zircons from Apollo 14 impact breccia 14311: Implications for the thermal history of the breccia.
Pidgeon, R. T., Merle, R. E., Grange, M. L., Nemchin, A. A. and Whitehouse, M. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12572 LINK