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Hunter & Taylor 1983
Hunter, R.H. and Taylor, L.A. (1983). The Magma ocean from the fra mauro shoreline: an overview of the apollo 14 crust. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: doi: 10.1029/JS088iS01p0A591. issn: 0148-0227.

Numerous coarse-grained, poly-mineralic, texturally-monomict, igneous clasts from the Apollo 14 breccias have been studied petrographically and mineralogically. The aims of these clast studies were to evaluate the range of crystal lithologies present at the Apollo 14 site, to bracket their constituent mineralogical compositions, and to assess their relative abundances. Troctolite and troctolitic anorthosite are the most abundant rock types. These are related to the Mg-rich trend. Three distinct plutons may be represented. There is a distinct paucity of noritic lighologies. The second most abundant group consists of plagioclase cumulates (alkali-rich anorthosites) with more evolved mineral compositions than the Mg-rich trend cumulates; their provenance is indeterminate. Coarse-grained ilmenite gabbros and mineralogically-evolved monzonoritic and granitic clasts are widespread in occurrence but not abundant. An olivine-gabbronorite clast (14305,92) is pristine. Petrographically and mineralogically, it shows a striking resemblance to Apollo 12 olivine mare basalts. The paucity of ferroan anorthosites at this and the Apollo 17 site is attributed to a higher density of Mg-rich and related intrusives in the primitive anorthositic crust in comparison with other sites. Our data provide further support for widespread regional heterogeneities within the early lunar crust.

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