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Journal of Petrology Volume 42 Number 6 Pages 1219-1220 2001
© Oxford University Press 2001

Flood Basalts, Basalt Floods or Topless Bushvelds? Lunar Petrogenesis Revisited: A Critical Comment

STUART ROSS TAYLOR,*

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, CANBERRA, A.C.T 0200, AUSTRALIA


   INTRODUCTION
 
The lengthy paper on this subject by M. J. O’Hara (2000)Go contains an interesting reassessment of lunar evolution, although it differs little in its conclusions from his original views published over a quarter of a century ago. To answer all the arguments in detail would demand a paper of equal length. However, it is possible to discern some basic underlying assumptions among the extensive discussion and I have chosen to concentrate on these to display some of the fundamental fallacies that underlie O’Hara’s case.

Crucial to his argument is his statement that ‘there is no positive europium anomaly in the average lunar highland crust’ (p. 1545, see also p. 1551) and this leads him to deny . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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