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Experimental Constraints on the Origin of the Lunar High-Ti Basalts

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Renggli,  C.J.
Planetary Science Department, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Max Planck Society;

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Haupt, C. P., Renggli, C., Rohrbach, A., Berndt, J., & Klemme, S. (2024). Experimental Constraints on the Origin of the Lunar High-Ti Basalts. Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), 129, e2023JE008239. doi:10.1029/2023JE008239.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-5312-C
Abstract
High-pressure and high-temperature experiments were conducted to simulate melting of a hybrid cumulate lunar mantle. The experimental results show that intermediate to high-Ti lunar pyroclastic glasses (>6 wt% TiO2) can be produced by partial melting of lunar cumulates. High-Ti basalts are generated when the ilmenite/clinopyroxene ratios in the lunar mantle cumulates are between 1/1 and 4/1, depending on the degree of melting. The presence of an urKREEP component in the mantle cumulate strongly influences Al2O3/CaO of the melts. The experiments provide strong evidence for the model that the compositional diversity of lunar basalts is a consequence of a gravitational overturn of the lunar interior after the lunar magma ocean had solidified. Ilmenite/clinopyroxene in the cumulate mantle, which generates high-Ti melts at partial melting, do not comprise the ratios in ilmenite-bearing cumulates (IBC), which crystallized after ∼90% solidification of the lunar magma ocean and indicate local accumulation of ilmenite in the overturned lunar mantle. However, to fully match the natural composition of the most primitive lunar samples, secondary processes such as assimilation are still required.