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On the Moon, iron is an important element that occurs in a variety of minerals such as pyroxene, olivine, ilmenite, and spinel. It is also a key element for studying the theories of lunar formation (Drake 1986; Lucey et al. 1995), understanding the Moon’s bulk composition and the stratigraphy of the lunar crust (Ryder and Wood 1977), and understanding the formation, distribution, and varieties of lunar mare basalts (Hiesinger et al. 2000; Lawrence et al. 2002). In principle, different basaltic flows in mare regions can be identified from their FeO and TiO2 signatures since each basaltic flow melting history may produce a unique chemistry (Hiesinger et al. 2000). Therefore, the iron concentration estimation of the Moon’s surface provides important information to discriminate the different geologic terrains (Jolliff et al. 2000; Bhatt et al. 2015).
These terrains are inferred to be the result of the...
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Meng, Z. (2019). Iron Concentration, Lunar Surface. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_206-1
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