The very late-stage crystallization of the lunar magma ocean and the composition of immiscible urKREEP

Y Zhang, B Charlier, SB Krein, TL Grove… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The latest stages of the lunar magma ocean (LMO) crystallization led to the formation of
ilmenite-bearing cumulates and urKREEP, residual melts enriched in K, rare earth elements …

Experimental insights into the mineralogy and melt-rock reactions produced by lunar cumulate mantle overturn

JL Scholpp, N Dygert - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2024 - Springer
Hybridization of the lunar mantle during the overturn (sinking) of Fe-and Ti–rich ilmenite-
bearing clinopyroxenite cumulates (IBC) in the lunar interior is called upon to explain the …

Resurgence of Lunar Volcanism: Role of Localized Radioactive Enrichment in a Numerical Model of Magmatism and Mantle Convection

K Uh, M Kameyama, G Nishiyama, T Miyagoshi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We develop a 2-D numerical model of magmatism and mantle convection to understand the
volcanism on the Procellarum KREEP terrane (PKT) of the Moon, which continued for …