formation of anorthosite on the moon through magma ocean fractional crystallization

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Formation of anorthosite on the Moon through magma ocean fractional crystallization

Tatsuyuki Arai, Shigenori Maruyama

PII: S1674-9871(16)30204-3

DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2016.11.007

Reference: GSF 512

To appear in: Geoscience Frontiers

Received Date: 5 April 2016

Revised Date: 20 November 2016

Accepted Date: 25 November 2016

Please cite this article as: Arai, T., Maruyama, S., Formation of anorthosite on the Moon through magma

ocean fractional crystallization, Geoscience Frontiers (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2016.11.007.

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Typical size of plagioclase

in the lunar anorthosite

A sufficient condition that formed the thick anorthosite was constrained

Plagioclase will be entrained just after plagioclase starts to crystallize

Plaigoclase will separate from the magma when the melt becomes enriched in FeO

If the terrestrial magma ocean was saturated with H2O, anorthosite could not form