Fig. 3: SEM BSE images showing evidence for plagioclase melting. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: SEM BSE images showing evidence for plagioclase melting.

From: Pinpointing the thermal history of lunar basaltic meteorites in a nutshell

Fig. 3

a Vesicular plagioclase glass preserving the idiomorphic shape of the parent crystal. Vesicles are associated with overpressure cracks in neighboring pyroxene. b Mushroom-shaped and rounded Si-rich liquid blobs immiscible with plagioclase glass. An extended version (Fig. S6) can be found in Supplementary Section 3 (which also includes a discussion of the influence of these features on the equilibrium peak-shock pressure estimates reported in the literature).

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