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The lighter highland rocks are calcium-rich, metal-poor anorthosites, the original lunar crust.

(2009a): Trace element systematics on the Neoarchean Fiskenssset anorthosite complex and associated meta-volcanic rocks, SW Greenland: evidence for a magmatic origin.

New critical values for F and their use in the ANOVA and Fisher's F tests for evaluating geochemical reference material granite G-2 (U.S.A.) and igneous rocks from the Eastern Alkaline Province (Mexico)/ Nuevos valores criticos de F y su uso en las pruebas ANOVA y F de Fisher para evaluar el material de referencia geoquimica del granito G-2 (U.S.A.) y rocas igneas de la Provincia Alcalina Oriental (Mexico)

The new analysis of ferroan anorthosite (FAN) moonrock samples is published today in the journal Nature.

Moon may be years younger

(165) Data from the Orbiter showed that the lunar highlands have more variation in their chemical composition than previously thought, and detected minerals richer in sodium than the typical anorthosite crust.

Confusion over space

Nordic Mining agrees on anorthosite development with partner

Several regions of the world with similar rapakivi-like granites have formed during crustal extension where crustal rocks are believed to have been mixed with magma from below, resulting in the formation of anorthosite and granite (Lyckberg, 2009).

Famous mineral localities: Volodarsk-Volynski Zhitomir Oblast, Ukraine

Just like the rocks on Earth, Moon's have lots of basalt and olivine, pyroxene, and mafic breccias, along with plagioclase feldspar, also known as anorthosite. The crew of Apollo 11 even found an entirely new mineral at Tranquility Base during their 1969 visit - dubbed armalcolite in honor of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

Luna slowly yields her secrets

The use of this technology has been assessed with two minerals, anorthosite (a calcium alumino-silicate) and jotunite (an iron-rich basalt).

Moving away from silica sand