Sentences with phrase «rich ilmenite»

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Space scientists are keen to map the concentration of the titanium - dioxide - rich mineral ilmenite on the moon's surface, says Jim Garvin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The scientists infer that late in the magma - ocean crystallization, iron - rich pyroxene and ilmenite, which formed late and at the crust - mantle boundary, might have begun to sink, and early - formed magnesium - rich olivine might have begun to rise.