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Basu & McKay 1984
Basu, A. and McKay, D.S. (1984). Petrologic profile at Apollo 16 regolith at station 4. Journal of Geophysical Research 89: doi: 10.1029/JB080i014p0C133. issn: 0148-0227.

The Apollo 16 double drive tube core 6400 1/2 (total depth ~60 cm) consists of 4 petrologic units based on the modal abundance of lithic, monomineralic, and other particles in the 20-500 μm size range of samples from 12 levels. Variation in the abundance of particles derived directly from bedrocks is low and the core soils probably represent only one set of source rocks. The chemical signature of an excessively high mare basalt component at ~42 cm correlates with an excess of regolith breccias, which may then be the physical carrier. The core soils as a whole show a systematic size-composition relationship that may be attributed to a large-scale macroscopic reworking and the consequent marking of any or all previous surface process related mixing event. However, on a much smaller scale (~0.5 cm) individual soil layers seem to have evolved more via mixing than via in situ reworking.

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