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Report of the Working Party on the classification of the lunar igneous rocks
Author(s) -
BAS M. J. LE
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
meteoritics and planetary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.09
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 1086-9379
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2001.tb01953.x
Subject(s) - igneous rock , basalt , geology , geochemistry , igneous petrology , lunar mare , petrology , volcanism , paleontology , tectonics , engineering geology
— A report is presented for a possible revised classification of lunar igneous rocks that still uses the division of Moon rocks into mare and highland types. It subdivides the mare rocks into basalts depending on TiO 2 content and glasses depending on colour, and subdivides the highland rocks principally into KREEP basalts and into coarse‐grained igneous rocks comparable to and using terrestrial igneous rock terminology.