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csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/moon/moon_surface.html
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It is divided into light areas called the Lunar Highlands and darker areas ... The Highlands rocks are largely Anorthosite, which is a kind of igneous rock that ...
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www.planetary.org/explore/topics/the_moon/facts.html
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Apollo 14, 15, 16, and 17, as well as Luna 20, sampled lunar highlands. The maria appear to be dark deposits of a volcanic rock called basalt that fill many ( but ...
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www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/wl.an.2.html
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Anorthosite is an important rock type of the lunar highlands and probably formed the primitive lunar crust. This sample has been determined to be 4.19 billion ...
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www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/moon.html
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Episodic melting of the mantle rocks beneath the highland crust generated the younger mare basalts. Heavy bombardment of the lunar crust in its early stages of ...
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www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept10/highlands-granulites.html
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Sep 30, 2010 ... The nonmare rocks that dominate the highlands of the Moon are ... Two random samples of highlands rocks arrived to Earth as lunar meteorites ...
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www.springerlink.com/index/vl72538544417132.pdf
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ROCK TYPES PRESENT IN LUNAR HIGHLAND SOILS*. ARCH M. REID. NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tex., U.S.A.. (Received 13 April, 1973) ...
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www.planetary.brown.edu/pdfs/616.pdf
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subsequent lunar missions the general nature of the two pri- mary lunar rock types (basaltic mare and feldspathic highland crust) became apparent ( summarized ...
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