Chemistry and chronology of Apollo 11 volcanic and impact glass spherules from lunar soil 10084

Evgenia Salin; Marc Norman; Alexander Nemchin; Martin Whitehouse; Nick Timms

doi:10.60520/IEDA/114278

Chemistry and chronology of Apollo 11 volcanic and impact glass spherules from lunar soil 10084

Evgenia Salin^*
, Marc Norman
, Alexander Nemchin
, Martin Whitehouse
, Nick Timms

^*Corresponding author for this work

Geology and Mineralogy

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Abstract

Lunar soil samples contain glass spherules ranging in size from few micrometers to few millimeters, which formed by volcanic lava fountaining or impact melting. The 10084 soil from the Apollo 11 landing site contains glasses representing picritic, mare, and highlands chemical groups. This dataset presents textural observations, major and trace element data, and U-Th-Pb isotopic compositions of volcanic and impact lunar glass spherules from Apollo 11 regolith sample 10084 that define ages and compositions of pyroclastic eruptions and the impact events on the Moon.

Original language	English
Type	A dataset submitted to the Astromaterials Data Repository (AstroRepo), which contains chemical, and textural data as well as ages of impact and volcanic glass beads from the Apollo 11 regolith soil 10084 from the Moon
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.60520/IEDA/114278
Publication status	Published - Jan 2026
MoE publication type	O2 Other

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lunar regolith
Apollo 11
U-Pb
impact glass beads
volcanic glass beads

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