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Journal of Petrology Volume 41 Number 7 Pages 1121-1125 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000

Flood Basalts and Lunar Petrogenesis

M. J. O’HARA,*

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, PO BOX 914, CARDIFF CF10 3YE, UK

The popular interpretation of lunar maria, as sequences of primary picritic flood basalts derived by remelting a mantle that had accumulated from a global magma ocean, has many unsatisfactory aspects. The expertise of Keith Cox would have been valuable in their interpretation.

KEY WORDS: europium anomaly; Io; magma ocean; mare basalt; picrite; quench crystal; regolith


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