Multiple lithic clasts in lunar breccia Northwest Africa 7948 and implication for the lithologic components of lunar crust

• Published in: Meteoritics & Planetary Science
• Main Authors: Zeng, Xiaojia, Joy, Katherine H., Li, Shijie, Pernet‐Fisher, John F., Li, Xiongyao, Martin, Dayl J. P., Li, Yang, Wang, Shijie
• Other Authors: Science and Technology Facilities Council, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Royal Society
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maps.13049; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fmaps.13049; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/maps.13049

Abstract This study presents the petrography, mineralogy, and bulk composition of lunar regolith breccia meteorite Northwest Africa ( NWA ) 7948. We identify a range of lunar lithologies including basaltic clasts (very low‐titanium and low‐titanium basalts), feldspathic lithologies (ferroan anorthos...