Compositional Variability of 2.0‐Ga Lunar Basalts at the Chang'e‐5 Landing Site

China's Chang'e‐5 (CE‐5) mission successfully returned a total of 1.731 kg of lunar material from the north‐eastern Oceanus Procellarum region. Young (∼2.0 Ga) ages were reported from the CE‐5 basalts. However, there are controversies on whether they are low‐Ti or high‐Ti mare basalt type....

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of geophysical research. Planets 2023-05, Vol.128 (5), p.n/a
Hauptverfasser: Boschi, Samuele, Wang, Xiao‐Lei, Hui, Hejiu, Yin, Zongjun, Guan, Yue, Hu, Huan, Zhang, Wenlan, Chen, Jiayang, Li, Weiqiang
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Zusammenfassung:China's Chang'e‐5 (CE‐5) mission successfully returned a total of 1.731 kg of lunar material from the north‐eastern Oceanus Procellarum region. Young (∼2.0 Ga) ages were reported from the CE‐5 basalts. However, there are controversies on whether they are low‐Ti or high‐Ti mare basalt type. Here, we report the results of a comprehensive petrographic, elemental, and Pb isotopic investigation on a 17.6 mg CE‐5 basalt clast (CE5C0000YJYX048). By combining high‐resolution X‐ray tomography of the clast and microbeam (scanning electron microscope SEM, electron probe microanalyzer EPMA) analyses of mineral grains peeled off the clast surface, we derived the bulk clast chemical composition with a very small sample consumption (i.e.,
ISSN:2169-9097
2169-9100
DOI:10.1029/2022JE007627