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Vanimar & Papike 1978
Vanimar, D.T. and Papike, J.J. (1978). The lunar highland melt-rock suite. Geophysical Research Letters 5: doi: 10.1029/GL005i006p00429. issn: 0094-8276.

Size can be used as a criterion to select 18 large (>1 cm) samples from among 148 melt-rock fragments of all sizes. This selection variants among provides a suite of large samples which represent the important chemical variants among highland melt rocks; each large sample has enough material for a number of sample-destructive studies, as well as for future reference. Cluster analysis of the total data base of 148 highland melt rocks show six distinct groups: anorthositec gabbroic anorthosite, anorthositic gabbro (''highland baslt''), low-K Fra Mauro, intermediate-K Fra Mauro, and high-K. Large samples are available for four of the melt-rock groups (gabbroic anorthosite, anorthositic gabbro, low-K Fra Mauro, and intermediate-K Fra Mauro). This sample selection reveals two sub-groups of anorthositic gabbro (one anorthite-poor with negative Eu anomaly and one anorthite-rich without Eu anomaly). There is a sharp distinction between those Apollo 16 melt rocks and glasses which have both been classified as ''gabbroic anorthosite''.

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