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 significant glass component along with a preferential melting sequence for agglutinitic glass formation of: glass > plagioclase > pyroxene ≫ ilmenite. © 2003 by the American Geophysical Union.
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Pieters, C. M., & Taylor, L. A. (2003). Systematic global mixing and melting in lunar soil evolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(20). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GL018212
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