In this chapter, we present and discuss in detail current and novel advances in our
understanding of the processes that drove primordial differentiation of the Moon. This …

Just as the use of new tools revolutionized lunar science in 1610 (Galileo's telescope), 1840
(photography), and 1960s–1970s and 1990s (over 45 robotic and human missions to the …

Ratios of first-row transition elements (FRTE), such as Fe/Mn and Zn/Fe, may be fractionated
differently by partial melting of peridotite than by partial melting of recycled lithologies like …

Eleven isobaric experimental series simulate the fractional crystallization of 1,150 km deep
lunar magma ocean. Crystallization begins at 1,850° C with olivine (to 32 per cent solidified …

It is now generally accepted that the Moon formed by collision of a Mars-sized impactor with
the Earth (Hartmann and Davis, 1975), a process termed “the Giant Impact”. The oxygen …

The origin of titanium-rich basaltic magmatism on the Moon remains enigmatic. Ilmenite-
bearing cumulates in the lunar mantle are often credited as the source, but their partial melts …

Abstract Ilmenite-, magnetite-and clinopyroxene− melt trace element partition coefficients
were investigated experimentally as a function of oxygen fugacity and melt composition in a …

We investigate lunar troctolite petrogenesis with a series of forward models. We simulate the
cumulate mantle overturn hypothesis by modeling the adiabatic ascent and decompression …

Phase equilibrium experiments were conducted on a synthetic rock composition matching
that of the northern volcanic plains of Mercury as measured by the MErcury Surface, Space …

Fifteen experiments at 1 atm pressure and 1400° C have been conducted to determine
partition coefficients between olivine and silicate melt (D Ol-m elt) of the first-row transition …