Many studies exist on magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in and on the Moon, within the
last several years, that have cast into question the post-Apollo view of lunar formation, the …

Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) is an in-situ and non-destructive analytical technique
with high spatial resolution and an increasingly important analysis tool in materials science …

Water plays a critical role in the evolution of planetary bodies, and determination of the
amount and sources of lunar water has profound implications for our understanding of the …

Prior research has shown that fluorine and chlorine X-ray count rates vary with exposure to
the electron beam during electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of apatite. and demonstrate …

The search for water in our solar system is one of the primary driving forces for planetary
science and exploration because water plays an important role in many geologic processes …

Recent discoveries of water-rich lunar apatite are more consistent with the hydrous magmas
of Earth than the otherwise volatile-depleted rocks of the Moon. Paradoxically, this requires …

We conducted a petrologic study of apatite within 12 Martian meteorites, including 11
shergottites and one basaltic regolith breccia. These data were combined with previously …

The Mg-suite represents an enigmatic episode of lunar highlands magmatism that
presumably represents the first stage of crustal building following primordial differentiation …

In this study we have measured the OH contents and D/H ratios in apatite grains in lunar
basalts. These new data considerably expand the limited dataset published so far. The data …

The recent discoveries of hydrogen (H) bearing species on the lunar surface and in samples
derived from the lunar interior have necessitated a paradigm shift in our understanding of …