A33: What Can Symplectites Tell Us About Geological Processes on the Moon and Mars?

The work presented here reports findings from a detailed microscopic study of symplectites in lunar samples, specifically in basalts from the Apollo 15 mission and meteorites collected from Antarctica in 2018-2019. The symplectites studied are consistently composed of the same three minerals, olivine (olv), clinopyroxene (cpx), and silica (si). They represent the products of breakdown, […]

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