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basalt basalt Staffa: Boat Cave discrete particles of lunar soil (Top) Basalt and (bottom) breccia samples returned from the Moon by Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971.The dark basalt rock, collected near Hadley Rille on the edge of the Imbrium Basin (Mare Imbrium), is about 13 cm (5.1 inches) long and is representative of the mare lavas that filled the basin 3.3 billion years ago, several hundred million years after the impact that created Imbrium. Its numerous vesicles were formed from bubbles of gas present in the lava when it solidified.The breccia sample, which measures about 6 cm (2.4 inches) across, was found at Spur Crater at the foot of the Apennine range, part of the material pushed up by the Imbrium impact. Dating from the formation of Imbrium, it is composed of broken and shock-altered fragments fused together during the impact. Bowen's reaction series
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Staffa: Boat Cave
discrete particles of lunar soil
(Top) Basalt and (bottom) breccia samples returned from the Moon by Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971.The dark basalt rock, collected near Hadley Rille on the edge of the Imbrium Basin (Mare Imbrium), is about 13 cm (5.1 inches) long and is representative of the mare lavas that filled the basin 3.3 billion years ago, several hundred million years after the impact that created Imbrium. Its numerous vesicles were formed from bubbles of gas present in the lava when it solidified.The breccia sample, which measures about 6 cm (2.4 inches) across, was found at Spur Crater at the foot of the Apennine range, part of the material pushed up by the Imbrium impact. Dating from the formation of Imbrium, it is composed of broken and shock-altered fragments fused together during the impact.
Bowen's reaction series
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Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.
(Bed) Rocks and (Flint) Stones