Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED High-Ti Lunar Mare Basalt 0.25 mm.

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Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED High-Ti Lunar Mare Basalt 0.25 mm

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Low-Ti Lunar Mare Basalt 0.25 mm

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Apollo 12 Olivine Basalt 0.25 mm 12002

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Very-Low-Ti Lunar Mare Basalt 0.25 mm Fragment in Apollo 17 drill core

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Apollo 14 Aluminous Mare Basalt mm

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Lunar KREEP Basalt 0.5 mm 15386

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED KREEP and Hawaiian Basalt 0.5 mm Texture similar to terrestrial basalts (specifically similar to pahoehoe) Hawaiian pahoehoe

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Mars Basalt (Shergottite) 1 mm Shergotty

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Mars Basalt (Shergottite) 1 mm Shergotty

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Eucrite Basalt Pasamonte meteorite 0.5 mm

Textures of Extraterrestrial Basalts COSMOCHEMISTRY iLLUSTRATED Eucrite Basalt EET mm