Petrographic Studies on the NASA Lunar Sample thin Section Set: I. the Textural Sequence of the Basaltic Samples and thier Description by Cellular Automata Mosaic Model and Tentative TTT-Diagram | Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Ásványtani, Geokémiai és Kőzettani Tanszék

Reference:
Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Szeged 2003, Vol. 44, pp. 57-61

Szerző:
Bérczi Szaniszló
Józsa Sándor

Abstract:
NASA Lunar Sample Educational Set is a valuable source for planetary petrology education. Using the basaltic thin sections and clast from breccias of the Apollo expedition lunar samples we made cosmopetrographic comparisons between the lunar and a terrestrial sequence. We made a tentative parallel layered sequence of the textures from a lunar mare cross section and a terrestrial pillow lava gradient from outside to inside. On the basis of textural comparisons we compiled a tentative TTT diagram for the lunar mare cooling rates and pillow lava textures.

Letöltés

acta2003, basalt, moon, nasa, planetology, texture