Fig. 3: Isotopic and elemental evidence supporting the lunar origin of the CE-6 olivines. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Isotopic and elemental evidence supporting the lunar origin of the CE-6 olivines.

From: Lunar primitive mantle olivine returned by Chang’e-6

Fig. 3

a Three oxygen isotopic compositions of the CE-6 olivines (circles). Also shown are the terrestrial fractionation line (TFL, black line), and oxygen isotopic compositions of the San Carlos olivine (SCO) and NIST 610 analyzed in this study (triangles). Error bars represent 1sd of SCO analyses. The inset in (a) is a plot of δ18O versus Fo of the CE-6 olivines, with the gray bar representing the weighted average δ18O value. b Fo versus FeO/MnO of the CE-6 olivines (circles). Compositional fields of lunar and ultramagnesian mafic fragment (UMMF) olivines are after ref. 35. Compositional field of olivines from the Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO) experiments are from refs. 7,8,9,26. The star represents the average olivine composition of the dunite in NWA 114212. Data are reported in Supplementary Data 1 and 2.

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