Assessing the Effects of South Pole-Aitken Basin Impact-Induced Melt Extraction on the Mantle Source of Chang'e-6 Basalts

Xing Wang; Wenhao Zhao; James W. Head; Qin Zhou; Bo Wu; Jianjun Liu

Assessing the Effects of South Pole-Aitken Basin Impact-Induced Melt Extraction on the Mantle Source of Chang'e-6 Basalts

Xing Wang
, Wenhao Zhao
, James W. Head
, Qin Zhou
, Bo Wu
, Jianjun Liu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research

Abstract

Modeling suggests that SPA impact-induced melt extraction can strongly lower LREE in the CE-6 mantle source, but additional source heterogeneity or mineralogical controls are required to reproduce the observed MREE-HREE fractionation of CE-6 basalts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Publication status	Published - Mar 2026

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