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Warren et al. 1983
Warren, P.H., Taylor, G.J., Keil, K., Kallemeyn, G.W., Shirley, D.N. and Wasson, J.T. (1983). Seventh Foray: Whitlockite-rich lithologies, a diopside-bearing troctolitic anorthosite, Ferroan Anorthosites, and KREEP. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: doi: 10.1029/JS088iS02p0B151. issn: 0148-0227.

Seventeen nonmare samples, most of them prisstine, are characterized, and implications of the new data are discussed. Five pristime samples are from Apollo 14, near the center of the KREEP-rich zone in the moon's western hemisphere. Three of them are alkali anorthosites rich in Ca-phosphate (whitlockite), which apparently crystallized from magmas with REE: contents roughly 6¿ those of high-K KREEP. The alkali anorthosites probably formed from Mg-rich magmas that assimilated large amounts of urKREEP, but some might have formed by metasomatism of ferroan anorthosite by urKREEP. The gabbronorite/norite classification scheme is not well suited to western hemisphere lithologies, probably due mainly to the overriding effects of longitude-petrochemistry correlations. A diopside-bearing Mg-rich lithology indicates that a low degree of melting was not a prerequisite for producing gabbroic (high-Ca pyroxene-rich) Mg-rich magmas,, and suggests that some source regions of Mg-rich magmas, relatively Ca-rich. Several pristine KREEP fragments from Apollo 15 station 2 are texturally and compositionally much like other pristine KREEP, and thus reinforce the evidence that KREEP is highly uniform. The pristine anorthosites, on the other hand, demonstrate further that lunar anorthosites are diverse.

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