Although layered komatiite flows with spinifex-textured upper parts and olivine-enriched
lower parts are commonly thought to provide firm evidence of magmatic differentiation by …

Abstract Subsolidus Mg-Fe 2+ exchange between olivine and spinel is governed by Mg-Fe
2+ interdiffusion. Incomplete exchange results in Mg-Fe 2+ heterogeneity in both olivine and …

Abstract A 15.6-m cooling unit from DSDP Leg 34 is investigated to determine the effects of
the rate of solidification of a liquid on the resulting textures and mineralogy. A detailed …

Dhofar 019 is a new martian meteorite found in the desert of Oman. In texture, mineralogy,
and major and trace element chemistry, this meteorite is classified as a basaltic shergottite …

Olivine phenocrysts in the picritic scoria that erupted from Kilauea Iki in 1959 occur as
glomeroporphyritic aggregates of 2–16 crystals. The compositions and three-dimensional …

Mineralogy, major element compositions of minerals, and elemental and oxygen isotopic
compositions of the whole rock attest to a lunar origin of the meteorite Northwest Africa …

A simple igneous petrogenesis for the meteorite Nakhla has previously been called into
question because Mg Fe ratios in olivine indicate substantial disequilibrium between the …

Quantitative textural data for Northwest Africa (NWA) 032 and the LaPaz (LAP) mare basalt
meteorites (LAP 02205, LAP 02224, LAP 02226, and LAP 02436) prvide constraints on their …

We studied the extent and degree of homogenization of chemical zoning of olivines in type 3
ordinary chondrites in order to obtain some constraints on cooling histories of chondrites …

Abstract Lunar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 5744 is a granulitic breccia with an
anorthositic troctolite composition that may represent a distinct crustal lithology not …