Sentences with phrase «of plagioclase»

Both Longhi and Warren harbor some skepticism about the extraordinary level of plagioclase purity in the anorthosites detected by Kaguya but maintain that the general implications remain relevant.

Not exact matches

Thousands to millions of years later, these elements combined with silicates in the moon's mantle to form plagioclase feldspars, which eventually moved to the surface and formed the moon's crust, said Roy.

The Kaguya orbiter looked for anorthosite, a type of rock enriched in the relatively low - density mineral plagioclase.

The spectral character of these spots is distinct from surrounding mare and highlands material and from regions composed of pure plagioclase feldspar.

Much of this work has been on carbonation of an abundant type of lava, basalt, which contains minor amounts of olivine together with large proportions of alumino - silicate minerals such as plagioclase feldspar.

NASA's Curiosity rover gets its first taste of Mars and finds plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and olivine minerals.

Here we present ion microprobe measurements of the CO2 content of basaltic melt trapped in plagioclase crystals.