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Pieters & Taylor 2003
Pieters, C.M. and Taylor, L.A. (2003). Systematic global mixing and melting in lunar soil evolution. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL018212. issn: 0094-8276.

We present a revised model of soil evolution constrained by the recent LSCC data for lunar soils. In addition to an observed universal increase in feldspathic components in the finer fractions of soils <Taylor et al., 2001, 2003a, 2003b>, both differential melting and lateral mixing processes appear to be required during the evolution of lunar soils. We propose mare-highland mixing of a significant glass component along with a preferential melting sequence for agglutinitic glass formation of: glass > plagioclase > pyroxene ≫ ilmenite.

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Mineralogy and Petrology, Major element composition, Mineralogy and Petrology, Planetary mineralogy and petrology, Planetary Sciences, Erosion and weathering, Planetary Sciences, Surface materials and properties, Planetology, Solar System Objects, Moon
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Geophysical Research Letters
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