Modal and chemical data for 31 major, minor, and trace elements obtained by INAA for soils from four (~5 cm) depth intervals of drive tube 12027 show three compositional units within the core. The upper ~2.5 cm of 12027 represent part of the Sharp crater rim crest deposit, which has a total thickness of ~23 cm. Chemical differences are attributed to addition of local mare rocks to the upper 2 cm and KREEPy material to the lower stratigraphic layer (14--17 cm depth). The coarser fractions (1000-90, 90-20, and 20-10 μm) are compositionally similar to each other but quite different from the <10-μm fine fractions, which are more feldspathic and enriched in incompatible (LIL) elements. Correlation between fused soil contents and LIL enrichments of the coarse fractions strongly suggests that agglutinates are derived from the fine fraction, thus supporting the fusion of the finest fraction (F3) model. The trench soil 12033, from ~15 cm depth, is very similar to the 15.5--16 cm soil of core 12027, indicating that the Apollo 12 regolith exhibits KREEP enrichments at various depths and that exotic KREEPy ejecta are wide spread at the Apollo 12 site. |