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Experimentally reproduced textures and mineral chemistry of Apollo 15 quartz normative basalts
G. E. Lofgren, Richard J. Williams, T. M. Usselman, Colin Donaldson, Oliver C. Mullins
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Abstract
An analog of the Apollo 15 quartz-normative basalts (also called pyroxene-phyric basalts) has been experimentally crystallized at a variety of linear cooling rates between 1250 and 1°C/hr at one atmosphere total pressure and oxygen fugacities close to those ascribed to lunar rocks.
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