Introduction: The meteorite Dhofar 026 (Dh26) was found in Oman in January, 2000 [1]. It is a clastpoor, anorthositic, crystalline melt breccia with no fusion crust and little terrestrial weathering. Solar wind abundance measurements show that it is unpaired with the lunar regolith breccia Dhofar 025 [2]. The Dh26 oxygen isotopic composition indicates its lunar origin [3], while its majorand tr...

Introduction: Minerals subjected to high shock pressures exhibit structural changes with increasing pressure (e.g., fractures, deformations, formation of diaplectic glass, and complete melting [1-6]). Petrologic and thermal infrared spectroscopic studies have shown that diaplectic glass (maskelynite) formation in feldspars occurs between ~25-45 GPa, while significant melting occurs above ~45 GP...

[1] We present a revised model of soil evolution constrained by the recent LSCC data for lunar soils. In addition to an observed universal increase in feldspathic components in the finer fractions of soils [Taylor et al., 2001, 2003a, 2003b], both differential melting and lateral mixing processes appear to be required during the evolution of lunar soils. We propose mare-highland mixing of a sig...