2000/07/01 by M. J. O’Hara · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Planetary Science and Exploration #Petrogenesis #Geology #Flood basalt #Basalt #Geochemistry #Earth science #Astrobiology #Paleontology #Volcanism #Tectonics
paper · doi:10.1093/petrology/41.7.1121
openalex publication_date 2000/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
The popular interpretation of lunar maria, as sequences of primary for igneous petrologists and geochemists.Ocean island basalts (OIB), mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) and picritic flood basalts derived by remelting a mantle that had accumulated from a global magma ocean, has many unsatisfactory CFB were each advanced as primary magmas.However, petrographic, major element and experimental petrology aspects.The expertise of Keith Cox would have been valuable in their interpretation.data were challenging this simplified view.Data for Hawaiian tholeiitic OIB demonstrated that the common basalts were differentiated and that only the picrites could be primary magmas (Yoder & Tilley, 1962;O'Hara,