| Important: If you were sent here via a link from Dr. Randy Korotev of Washington University in St. Louis, please be aware that the document he created represents pseudo-science of the highest order and is completely politically motivated. Political motivation is defined here as; "a need to advance an agenda of scientific misconduct, greed, fraud, and discrimination using science and the academic arena as an operational nerve center". We have already dissected, debunked, and discredited his linked non-scientific document(s) and posted the results on SCIFRAUD. I informed Dr. Korotev, "you have a very narrow and fraudulent view of lunar chemistry" (surface and subsurface). Dr. Korotev responded with an apology to BCC Meteorites for his scientific misconduct and attempted fraud on WIKIPEDIA. Dr. Korotev did not deny the allegations lodged against him regarding lunar chemistry! In essence, Dr. Korotev and a small band of rogue (unsupervised) scientists have constructed a shallow mold to fit their vision of all lunar materials. This short-sighted and faulty vision was shattered by BCC Meteorites as far back as 2002, when we verified Taylor's (HIGP) lunar surface chemistry weaned from the extensive Clementine: Lunar Surface Data Mapping Project. We apologize to the public and legitimate research scientists for any confusion created by these pseudo-scientists at our public and private universities funded by the taxpayers through, including but not limited to the NSF and NASA. |
| Photomicrographs below of BCC9601 Lunar Highlands Surface Crust in plane and polarized light. Note; because the differentiated lunar highlands surface has evolved through a complete solid solution, it is easier to deduce the chemical compostion using x-ray diffraction. The original unaltered (non-massive impacting features) surface has a basaltic appearance. The individual crystals can only be seen through a microscope as shown below. On phase separation [major phases] BCC9601 has a granitic composition and basaltic appearance whos coherency can only be achieved in the temperature and pressures found in-on non terrestrial solid bodies. It's bulk chemcial compostion for compatible and incompatible phases therefore comes to the following; |
| Plagioclase feldspar-- 48% Pyroxene--17% Quartz--29% cristobalite, tridymite, and alpha quartz by reconstructive transformation [surface rind]. Ilmenite-- 2% Phlogopite-- 4% [halogens replacing hydrogen in crystal lattice in anhydrous lunar environment] |
