Timing of geological events in the lunar highlands recorded in shocked zircon-bearing clasts from Apollo 16

Timing of geological events in the lunar highlands recorded in shocked zircon-bearing clasts from Apollo 16

Apollo 16 soil-like regolith breccia 65745,7 contains two zircon-bearing clasts. One of these clasts is a thermally annealed silica-rich rock, which mineralogically has affinities with the High Alkali Suite (Clast 1), and yields zircon dates ranging from 4.08 to 3.38 Ga. The other clast is a KREEP-r...

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Main Authors: K. H. Joy, J. F. Snape, A. A. Nemchin, R. Tartèse, D. M. Martin, M. J. Whitehouse, V. Vishnyakov, J. F. Pernet-Fisher, D. A. Kring
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2020-06-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
Subjects:
zircon
lunar samples
apollo 16
regolith breccias
pb-pb age dating
shock-zircon
Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.200236

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