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https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-123-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-123-2024
Review article
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26 Jan 2024
Review article |  | 26 Jan 2024

Review of melt inclusions in lunar rocks: constraints on melt and mantle composition and magmatic processes

Youxue Zhang

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I review investigations of melt inclusions in lunar rocks in the last 53 years. They can be divided into two stages. In the first stage (1970s), melt inclusion studies focused on major oxides and magma evolution, including the discovery of silicate liquid immiscibility. In the second stage (since 2010), melt inclusion studies have provided key constraints on water and other volatiles on the Moon and have been instrumental in the paradigm shift from a “bone-dry” Moon to a fairly wet Moon.