Geochemistry of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 11962 and its potential source region/crater in the Procellarum KREEP terraneOPEN ACCESS
Andreas Bechtold, Toni Schulz, Wencke Wegner, Dieter Mader, Christian Patterer, Christian Koeberl MAPSVersion of Record online: 21 July 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Lunar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 11962 is a regolith breccia with…
Mare basalt meteorites, magnesian-suite rocks and KREEP reveal loss of zinc during and after lunar formation
James M.D. Day, Elishevah M.M.E. van Kooten, Beda A. Hofmann, Frederic Moynier Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 10 December 2019 LINK “Isotopic compositions of reservoirs in the Moon can…
New lunar meteorite NWA 10986: A mingled impact melt breccia from the highlands—A complete cross section of the lunar crust
S. E. Roberts, M. C. McCanta, M. M. Jean, L. A. Taylor Meteoritics & Planetary Science LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 10986 is a new mingled lunar meteorite found in 2015 in Western Sahara. This impact…
KREEP basalt petrogenesis: Insights from 15434,181
Cronberger, K. and Neal, C. R. Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi: 10.1111/maps.12837 LINK “Returned lunar KREEP basalts originated through impact processes or endogenous melting of the lunar interior. Various methods have been used to distinguish…
U-Pb zircon dating of the lunar meteorite Dhofar 1442
S. I. Demidova, M. A. Nazarov, M. O. Anosova, Yu. A. Kostitsyn, Th. Ntaflos, F. Brandstaetter Petrology January 2014, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp 1-16 LINK