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40ar/39ar Ages Of Lunar Impact Glasses: Relationships Among Ar Diffusivity, Chemical Composition, Shape, And Size, John W. Delano Phd, Nicolle Zellner
40ar/39ar Ages Of Lunar Impact Glasses: Relationships Among Ar Diffusivity, Chemical Composition, Shape, And Size, John W. Delano Phd, Nicolle Zellner
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Lunar impact glasses, which are quenched melts produced during cratering events on the Moon, have the potential to providenot only compositional information about both the local and regional geology of the Moon but also information about the impact flux over time. We present in this paper the results of 73 new 40Ar/39Ar analyses of well-characterized, inclusion-free lunar impact glasses and demonstrate that size, shape, chemical composition, fraction of radiogenic 40Ar retained, and cosmic ray exposure (CRE) ages are important for 40Ar/39Ar investigations of these samples. Specifically, analyses of lunar impact glasses from the Apollo 14, 16, and 17 landing sites …