On the petrogenesis of lunar troctolites: New insights into cumulate mantle overturn & mantle exposures in impact basins

The timing of lunar solidification and mantle overturn recorded in ferroan anorthosite 62237

(2020) C.K. Sio et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Formation of lunar highlands anorthosites

(2020) Xiaoqing Xu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early crust building enhanced on the Moon’s nearside by mantle melting-point depression

(2020) Stephen M. Elardo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Northwest Africa 10401: A New Type of the Mg‐Suite Rocks

(2020) Juliane Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

A long-lived magma ocean on a young Moon

(2020) M. Maurice et al.   Science Advances

The formation and evolution of the Moon’s crust inferred from the Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of highlands rocks

(2020) Lars E. Borg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The participation of ilmenite-bearing cumulates in lunar mantle overturn

(2019) Y. Zhao et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evidence of chemical heterogeneity within lunar anorthosite parental magmas

(2019) John F. Pernet-Fisher et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Timescale of overturn in a magma ocean cumulate

(2019) A. Morison et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Timing of mantle overturn during magma ocean solidification

(2018) C.-E. Boukaré et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Crystallization of the lunar magma ocean and the primordial mantle-crust differentiation of the Moon

(2018) Bernard Charlier et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Fractional crystallization of the lunar magma ocean: Updating the dominant paradigm

(2018) J. F. Rapp et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

The Character of South Pole-Aitken Basin: Patterns of Surface and Subsurface Composition

(2018) D. P. Moriarty et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Spinel-anorthosites on the Moon: Impact melt origins suggested by enthalpy constraints

(2018) Allan H. Treiman et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Chronologic implications for slow cooling of troctolite 76535 and temporal relationships between the Mg-suite and the ferroan anorthosite suite

(2017) Lars E. Borg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

South Pole–Aitken basin ejecta reveal the Moon’s upper mantle

(2017) H.J. Melosh et al.   GEOLOGY

The effect of ilmenite viscosity on the dynamics and evolution of an overturned lunar cumulate mantle

(2017) Nan Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Generation, ascent and eruption of magma on the Moon: New insights into source depths, magma supply, intrusions and effusive/explosive eruptions (Part 1: Theory)

(2017) Lionel Wilson et al.   ICARUS

In situ measurement of ferric iron in lunar glass beads using Fe-XAS

(2017) Molly C. McCanta et al.   ICARUS

Investigation of Lunar Spinels at Sinus Aestuum

(2017) Catherine M. Weitz et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Early formation of the Moon 4.51 billion years ago

(2017) Melanie Barboni et al.   Science Advances

Reflectance spectroscopy of chromium-bearing spinel with application to recent orbital data from the Moon

(2016) Kelsey B. Williams et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Formation of the lunar highlands Mg-suite as told by spinel

(2016) Tabb C. Prissel et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Rates and styles of planetary cooling on Earth, Moon, Mars, and Vesta, using new models for oxygen fugacity, ferric-ferrous ratios, olivine-liquid Fe-Mg exchange, and mantle potential temperature

(2016) Keith Putirka   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

On the potential for lunar highlands Mg-suite extrusive volcanism and implications concerning crustal evolution

(2016) Tabb C. Prissel et al.   ICARUS

Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions, processes, and reservoirs

(2015) Francis M. McCubbin et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Density and compressibility of the molten lunar picritic glasses: Implications for the roles of Ti and Fe in the structures of silicate melts

(2015) Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Origin of the Apollo 14, 15, and 17 yellow ultramafic glasses by mixing of deep cumulate remelts

(2015) S.M. Brown et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Exploring the Moon's surface for remnants of the lunar mantle 1. Dunite xenoliths in mare basalts. A crustal or mantle origin?

(2015) Charles K. Shearer et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Lunar cryptomaria: Mineralogy and composition of ancient volcanic deposits

(2015) Jennifer Whitten et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Spinel-rich lithologies in the lunar highland crust: Linking lunar samples with crystallization experiments and remote sensing

(2014) J. Gross et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

The distribution of Mg-spinel across the Moon and constraints on crustal origin

(2014) C. M. Pieters et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Origin of the lunar highlands Mg-suite: An integrated petrology, geochemistry, chronology, and remote sensing perspective

(2014) C. K. Shearer et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Pink Moon: The petrogenesis of pink spinel anorthosites and implications concerning Mg-suite magmatism

(2014) T.C. Prissel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A young solidification age for the lunar magma ocean

(2014) Amy M. Gaffney et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The Crust of the Moon as Seen by GRAIL

(2012) M. A. Wieczorek et al.   SCIENCE

The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology

(2011) Linda T. Elkins-Tanton et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lunar Magma Ocean crystallization revisited: Bulk composition, early cumulate mineralogy, and the source regions of the highlands Mg-suite

(2011) Stephen M. Elardo et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Experimental investigation of the influence of oxygen fugacity on the source depths for high titanium lunar ultramafic magmas

(2011) Michael J. Krawczynski et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Chronological evidence that the Moon is either young or did not have a global magma ocean

(2011) Lars E. Borg et al.   NATURE

Possible mantle origin of olivine around lunar impact basins detected by SELENE

(2010) Satoru Yamamoto et al.   Nature Geoscience

The pattern of Ni and Co abundances in lunar olivines

(2009) John Longhi et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A combined Sm–Nd, Rb–Sr, and U–Pb isotopic study of Mg-suite norite 78238: Further evidence for early differentiation of the Moon

(2008) J. Edmunson et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA