Lunar Sample Atlas

This library of images provides pictures of the Apollo samples taken in the Lunar Sample Laboratory, full-color views of the samples in microscopic thin-sections, cutting views and diagrams that illustrate how the samples were subdivided for scientific analyses, and in situ views of the samples on the lunar surface. The atlas contains information about the type of sample (e.g., rock, soil), the lithology (e.g., basalt, norite), and a description of the sample. Links to additional information about each sample are provided for those that have been previously described in The Lunar Sample Compendium and Lunar Sample Catalogs. Version 1 of the atlas was released in August 2009 and version 2 was released in July 2010. The process of scanning lunar sample images continues and the atlas will grow in the future.

A subset of this collection, the Apollo Thin Sections catalog, includes all samples for which thin-section views are available. Another subset, the Virtual Microscope catalog, provides interactive views of selected thin sections as they would be seen through a microscope. Another rich source of thin-section views by William Phinney (formerly with the NASA Johnson Space Center) and Howard Wilshire (formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey) is the Digital Petrographic Slide Collection, which is hosted by our colleagues at Arizona State University.

Apollo 11
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Sample Number	Sample Type	Lithology	Description
10000
10002
10003	rock	basalt	Medium-grained subophitic basalt composed of clinopyroxene, two generations of plagioclase, ilmenite with subordinate cristobalite and mesostasis.
10004	core
10005	core
10009	rock	breccia	Highly devitrified breccia with high glass clast content
10010		soil
10015
10017	rock	basalt	Fine-grained, poikilitic, vesicular basalt composed of clinopyroxene, plagioclase, two generations of ilmenite and subordinate opaques and mesostasis
10018	rock	breccia	Dark grey fine breccia
10019	rock	breccia	Partly devitrified breccia with low lithic clast content
10020		basalt
10021	rock	breccia	Partly devitrified typical breccia with a relatively low amount of glass fragments
10022		basalt
10023	rock	breccia	Sub-rounded, medium dark gray, fine breccia
10024		basalt
10025		breccia
10026		regolith breccia
10027		breccia
10028		breccia
10029		basalt
10030
10031		basalt
10032		basalt
10044		basalt
10045		basalt
10046		breccia
10047	rock	basalt	Medium-grained subophitic basalt composed of clinopyroxene, two generations of plagioclase, ilmenite with subordinate cristobalite pyroxferroite and mesostasis.
10048	rock	breccia	Rounded to subrounded, medium light grey, fine breccia
10049	rock	basalt	Fine-grained vesicular intersertal basalt with a pyroxene-ilmenite network hosting smaller plagioclase crystals and abundant mesostasis.
10050		basalt
10056	rock	breccia	Angular to sub-angular, medium dark grey microbreccia
10057		basalt
10058		basalt
10059	rock	breccia	Slightly devitrified typical breccia with relatively low lithic clast content
10060		breccia
10061	rock	breccia	Partly devitrified, medium grey fine breccia with marked matrix differences between zones
10062		basalt
10063	rock	breccia	Sub-angular, dark grey, partly devitrified typical breccia with relatively high glass clast content
10064	rock	breccia	Angular, dark to light grey, highly devitrified fine breccia with high glass clast content
10065		breccia
10066	rock	breccia	Rounded, dark grey, fine breccia
10067	rock	breccia	Sub-angular, dark grey, partly devitrified microbreccia with low glass content
10068		breccia
10069		basalt
10070	rock	breccia	Subangular, dark grey, partly devitrified fine breccia with many small lithic clasts and few large clasts
10071		basalt
10072		basalt
10072A
10072D
10073	rock	breccia	Rounded, medium dark grey, partly devitrified microbreccia with low lithic clast content
10074	rock	breccia	Angular, medium dark grey, partly devitrified microbreccia with low lithic clast content
10075	rock	breccia	Subangular, medium grey, partly devitrified fine breccia
10082	rock	breccia	Rounded to subrounded, dark grey to black, partly devitrified microbreccia with no large lithic clasts
10084	soil-general		The contingency sample was taken in front of quad IV of the LM. The documented sample was collected 5 meters north of the LM, the bulk sample was collected in front of quad IV by pouring scoops of loose soil to fill the voids left between rock samples in the bulk sample container. 10084 is the bulk soil sample. Soil is fine grained and hard in this sample area. There are few fragments and it is difficult to scoop deeper than 5 cm below the surface.
10085
10092		basalt
10093	rock	breccia	Subangular, medium dark grey, fine breccia
10094	rock	breccia	Subangular to subrounded, medium dark grey breccia
10119
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Apollo 12
Sample Number	Sample Type	Lithology	Description
12001	soil-general		12001 is <1 cm fraction of bulk regolith collected about 30 meters northwest of the LM on the first EVA traverse. Astronaut Conrad saw several beads of pure glass while collecting this sample. Fryxell reports that the fines are weakly coherent; they adhere to rocks and do not slump when the sample holder is tipped 45 degrees.
12002	rock	basalt
12003	soil >1 cm		12003 is coarse (>1cm) split from 12001, along with friable material from the bottom of the sample box. This was collected about 30 meters northwest of LM on EVA-1. These broken up fines from larger rocks do not make a statistical sample.
12004	rock	basalt	olivine basalt
12005	rock	basalt	holocrystalline, olivine basalt
12006	rock	basalt	Oliving Basalt, holocrystalline
12007	rock	basalt	holocrystalline
12008	rock	basalt	cumulate (ilmenite) ?
12009	rock	basalt
12010		breccia
12011	rock	basalt	holocrystalline
12012	rock	basalt	Olivine Pyroxenite; holocrystalline
12014	rock	basalt	porphyritic olivine microgabbro
12015		basalt
12016		basalt
12017		basalt
12018	rock	basalt	(terrestrial analogue) medium grained gabbro
12019		basalt
12020		basalt
12021		basalt
12022		basalt
12023		soil	Trench sample 12023 (collected at a depth of 20 cm) was collected from the east rim of the 20 meter Sharp crater. The rim material is softer and lighter in ccolor than the surrounding material.
12024
12025
12027	core
12028
12030
12031		basalt
12032	soil-general		Surface soil 12032, along with several rocks were collected from the north rim of Bench crater. It includes some light gray material from just below the surace. Soil collected with "potato" rock 12053.
12033	soil-general		Trench sample 12033 was collected 15 cm below the surface, 15 meters from the northwest rim of Head Crater near 12031. The trench bottom is lighter in color than the surface materials. Astronauts noticed more large blocks on the west side of Bench crater than on the east.
12034		breccia
12035		basalt
12036		basalt
12037		basalt	Soil sample in same sample bag as 12036, a friable basalt. Both were collected near the site of 12035 on the NW rim of Bench crater. Because it includes much broken material from the friable basalt, it is not statistically a soil sample.
12038	rock	basalt	holocrystalline; diabase (terrestrial analogue);
12039		basalt
12040		basalt
12041	soil-general		Soil sample collected about 50 m east of the rim of Bench crater. Sample consists mostly of ine particles but includes a 6.4 mm glass sphere.
12042			12042 is a surface soil taken on the outer flank of Surveyor crater rim, 50 m NW of Halo crater. The sample area is strewn with cohesive clods or aggregates showing a "wrinkled texture". Perhaps this indicates an area of secondary ejecta.
12043		basalt
12044	soil-general		Soil 12044 and rock 12043 were collected from the south rim of Surveyor crater. Astronauts observed a prominent double glass bead on the surface.
12045		basalt
12046		basalt
12047		basalt
12051		basalt
12052		basalt
12053		basalt
12054		basalt
12055		basalt
12056		basalt
12062		basalt
12063	rock	basalt	diabase (terrestrial analogue); ilmenite microgabbro similar to Apollo 11 (Chao)
12064		basalt
12065	rock	basalt	diabase (terrestrial analogue); holocrystalline
12070
12072		basalt
12073		breccia
12075		basalt
12076		basalt
12077		basalt
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Apollo 14
Sample Number	Sample Type	Lithology	Description
14006	rock	breccia	Sample 14006 was collected as part of the contingency sample during the first EVA in the vicinity of the lunar module. It was returned in weigh bag 1039 along with the rest of the contingency sample;
14008	rock		Sample 14008 was collected from the LM vicinity during the first EVA as part of the contingency sample. It was returned in weigh bag 1039 along with the rest of the contingency samples (14001-14012); sample is fine graned fragmental rock with avg grain size less than 0.1 mm; texturally and mineralogically homogeneous.
14035
14041		breccia	Samples 14041-14046 are fragments from a fractured clod tht broke apart when it was collected by Astronaut Mitchell, collected from Station A, 150 m NW of LM and 90 m N of North Triplet Crater; samples 14041, 14042, 14043, and 14045 are large enough to be considered rocks; sample 14044 is residue and sample 14046 is composed of chips and fines; placed in documented bag 3N and returned in ALSRC 1006.
14042	rock	breccia	Samples 14041-14046 are fragments from a fractured clod tht broke apart when it was collected by Astronaut Mitchell, collected from Station A, 150 m NW of LM and 90 m N of North Triplet Crater; samples 14041, 14042, 14043, and 14045 are large enough to be considered rocks; sample 14044 is residue and sample 14046 is composed of chips and fines; placed in documented bag 3N and returned in ALSRC 1006.
14045		breccia	Samples 14041-14046 are fragments from a fractured clod tht broke apart when it was collected by Astronaut Mitchell, collected from Station A, 150 m NW of LM and 90 m N of North Triplet Crater; samples 14041, 14042, 14043, and 14045 are large enough to be considered rocks; sample 14044 is residue and sample 14046 is composed of chips and fines; placed in documented bag 3N and returned in ALSRC 1006.
14046
14047	rock	breccia	Sample 14047 was collected at Station B, 330 m NE of LM and 65 m NNW of the rim of Weird Crater. It was placed in documented bag 5N and returned in ALSRC 1006.
14048
14049	rock	breccia	Sample 14049 was collected during the second EVA from Station Bg; placed in bag 6N by the astronauts who said they collected it from a crater rim. The lunar location and orientation are not documented by lunar surface photographs. It is a fragmental rock and is extremely friable and soft.
14051	rock	breccia	Sample 14051 was collected at station C' which was located 1.29 km ENE of LM and approximately 95 m SE of the rim of Cone Crater. The sample was collected on a gentle southward slope and was partly buried. The area was characterized by abundant fragments ranging from the limit of resolution up to 1.5 m blocks. The sample was returned in documented bag 7N in ALSRC 1006.
14052
14053	rock	basalt	holocrystalline, fine-grained, equigranular mare basalt (Carlson and Walton 1978); basalt (Wilshire and Jackson 1972) and (Quaide and Wrigley 1972); and mare basalt (Simonds et al 1977)
14054
14055	rock	regolith breccia	F1 Breccia, friable with light clasts (Wilshire and Jackson 1972); porous unshocked regolith microbreccia (Chao et al. 1972); glass rich regolith with breccia (von Engelhardt et al. 1972); and vitric matrix breccia (VMB) (Simonds et al. 1977)
14056	soil-general	breccia	Sample 14056 was collected from station E during the second EVA. It was returned in bag 15N along with samples 14055-14062; sample is extremely friable and appears to be coherent soil clod, medium brownish in color.
14057		soil	Sample 14057 was collected from Station E during the second EVA. It was returned in bag 15N in ALSRC 1006 along with samples 14055-14062. Sample is very friable and is brownish gray in color.
14058	rock		Sample 14058 was collected from station E during the second EVA. It was placed in bag 15N and returned in ALSRC 1006 along with 14055-14062. Sample is subangular, elongate rock tapered at one end. It is olive gray in color and is fine-grained with fragments larger than 1 mm comprising 15% of the rock.
14059		breccia	Sample 14059 was collected during the second EVA from station E. It was placed in bag 15N by the astronauts, and returned in ALSRC 1006 along with samples 14055-14062. Sample consists of two pieces, larger being irregular in shap and smaller being subrounded.
14060	rock	breccia	Sample 14060 was collected from station E during the second EVA. It was placed in bag 15N by the astronauts and returned in ALSRC 1006 along with 14055-14062. Sample is well rounded (almost spherical), friable, fragmental rock and is medium gray in color.
14061		breccia	Sample 14061 was collected druing the second EVA from station E. It was placed in bag 15N by the astronauts and returned in ALSRC 1006 along with 14055-14062. (Sample 14062 is residue). Sample is friable and appears grayish brown in color. It is an equidimensional, subrounded block.
14063	rock	breccia	So-Called "White Rocks"; friable with dark clasts (Wilshire and Jackson 1972); annealed or slightly annealed, feldspathic Fra Mauro breccia (Chao et al 1972); "white rock breccia" (Quaide and Wrigley 1972);
14064	rock	breccia	Sample 14064 was collected in the White Rocks area at Station C1 and was returned in bag 16 along with 14063 and 14065 (residue) in ALSRC 1006. There was a strong feeling at the LRL that 14064 and 14063 are parts of the same rock because not only do they look very much alike, but 14064 has a protruding 1 cm clast, while 14063 has a 1 cm clast mold. Shepard stated that he had put "a couple" of hand specimens into bag 16, which is what was found. Sample 14064 is one of those studied by the Imbrium Consortium. Sample is pale gray with leucocratic matrix and contains approximately 40% clasts and 60% matrix. The sample is friable "white rock".
14066	rock	breccia	Sample 14066 was collected at Station F on the second EVA. The sample was found in the vicinity of Weird Crater. Sample was returned in documented bay 17N in ALSRC 1006. It is essentally a grab sample and is moderately friable with a blocky subround to subangular surface. It is very light gray in color with some large, darker gray clasts.
14067
14068	rock	breccia	Sample 14068 was collected during the second EVA from station C1 and placed in bag number 10. It is one of the surface rocks collected while a gray layer, just under the surface, was samples 14140-14143; blocky, gray, coherent, holocrystalline, melt rock with less than 5% clasts.
14069	rock	breccia	Sample 14069 was collected at Station C1, 1.28 km ENE of the LM and 100 m SE of the rim of Cone Crater during the second EVA. The material at C1 appears to be material originally ejected from Cone Crater and re-ejected from a 30 m crater just south of Station C1 (Swann et al., 1977). Sample is block, gray, finely crystalline breccia with a sugary texture.
14070	rock	breccia	Sample 14070 was collected from Station C1, 1.28 km ENE of the LM, and 100 m SE of the rim of Cone Crater during the second EVA. It appears to have been ejected from Cone Crater that was later re-ejected from a 30 m crater in the vicinity (Swann et. al., 1977). This is a blocky, subangular, coherent, light gray, crystalline breccia that is similar to 14069.
14071		breccia	Sample 14071 was collected at Station C1 approximately 1.28 km ENE of LM and 100 m SE of Cone Crater. The area is locally flat with a slight southerly slope. The sample was collected amongst abundant debris ranging in size from the limit of resoution up to 75 cm. The photo-documented area was too disturbed to be able to see any intact craters. The sample was returned in documented bay 10N in ALSRC 1006. All the samples collected in the vicinity of 14071 are blocky and angular to subrounded with very rough surfaces.
14072	rock	basalt	Sample 14072 was collected at Station C1 approximately 1.28 km ENE of LM and 100 m SE of Cone Crater. The area is locally flat but generally slopes slightly to the south. The area is strewn with debris which ranges in size from the limit of resoution up to 75 cm. The debris is mainly angular to subrounded. The entire area of photo documentation is too disturbed to see any intact craters. The sample was returned in documented bag 10N in ALSRC 1006. Sample is medium light gray basalt and is somewhat smooth in appearance. The shape is blocky to subrounded and the rock is extremely coherent.
14073	rock	basalt	Samples 14073, 14074, 14078, and 14079 came from the bottome of a trench taken at Station G, 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of North Triplet Rim Crust. The are is marked by a nearly level terrain with sparse amount of debris scattered throughout. The debris ranges in size from the limit of resolution up to 60 cm. There is a moderate abundance of subdued 20 to 50 cm craters in the area. All samples were returned in documented bag 20N in ALSRC 1006 and are very light gray, very coherent, holocrystalline, melt rocks.
14074	rock	basalt	Samples 14073, 14074, 14078, and 14079 came from the bottome of a trench taken at Station G, 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of North Triplet Rim Crust. The are is marked by a nearly level terrain with sparse amount of debris scattered throughout. The debris ranges in size from the limit of resolution up to 60 cm. There is a moderate abundance of subdued 20 to 50 cm craters in the area. All samples were returned in documented bag 20N in ALSRC 1006 and are very light gray, very coherent, holocrystalline, melt rocks.
14075	rock		Sample 14075 was collected at the bottom of the trench at Station G 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of North Triplet rim crust. The area is characterized by a nearly level regolith surface which is sparsely strewn by fragmental debris. The size of the debris varies from the limit of resolution to 60 cm. It is small, subangular, blocky rock chip of a moderately coherent fragmental rock with a moderately smooth surface. The color is a ight gray. The sample was returned I documented bag 20N in ALSRC 1006.
14076	rock	breccia	Sample 14076 was collected at the bottom of the trench at Station G, 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of North Triplet rim crest. Area in general is nearly level and lightly strewn with debris. The size of the debris ranges from the limit of resolution up to 60 cm. There is a moderate amount of subhedral 20 to 50 cm craters. The sample was returned in documented bag 20N in ALSRC 1006 and is medium light gray in color.
14077	rock	basalt	Sample 14077 was collected at Station G locted 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of North Triplet rim crust. It was collected from the bottom of the trench sample. The general area is more or less level and sparsely covered with debris. The size of the debris ranges from limit of resolution of 60 cm. The area has a moderate abundance of 20 to 50 cm craters mot of which are subdued. It was returned in documented bag 20N in ALSRC 1006 and is a very light gray holocrystalline plagioclase-rich rock and is fine-grained and inequigranular.
14078	rock	basalt	Samples 14073, 14074, 14078, and 14079 came from the bottome of a trench taken at Station G, 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of North Triplet Rim Crust. The are is marked by a nearly level terrain with sparse amount of debris scattered throughout. The debris ranges in size from the limit of resolution up to 60 cm. There is a moderate abundance of subdued 20 to 50 cm craters in the area. All samples were returned in documented bag 20N in ALSRC 1006 and are very light gray, very coherent, holocrystalline, melt rocks.
14079	rock	basalt	Samples 14073, 14074, 14078, and 14079 came from the bottome of a trench taken at Station G, 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of North Triplet Rim Crust. The are is marked by a nearly level terrain with sparse amount of debris scattered throughout. The debris ranges in size from the limit of resolution up to 60 cm. There is a moderate abundance of subdued 20 to 50 cm craters in the area. All samples were returned in documented bag 20N in ALSRC 1006 and are very light gray, very coherent, holocrystalline, melt rocks.
14080	rock		Samples 14080 and 14081 were taken from the middle of the trench at Station G 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of the Triplet rim crust. The general area from where the sample was taken is characterized by a nearly level terrain sparsely scattered with debris. The size of the debris varies from the limit of resolution up to 60 cm. The area is also characterized by a moderate abundance of subdued 20 to 50 cm craters and were returned in documented bay 21N in ALSRC 1006. Both are light gray in color and very fine grained. The are both polymicts and contain abundant glass. Both are friable being made up of < 1 mm rock/soil fragments bonded by glass. They could be pieces of the sample but in their present state, they cannot be fitted together.
14081	rock		Samples 14080 and 14081 were taken from the middle of the trench at Station G 230 m ESE of LM and 50 m E of the Triplet rim crust. The general area from where the sample was taken is characterized by a nearly level terrain sparsely scattered with debris. The size of the debris varies from the limit of resolution up to 60 cm. The area is also characterized by a moderate abundance of subdued 20 to 50 cm craters and were returned in documented bay 21N in ALSRC 1006. Both are light gray in color and very fine grained. The are both polymicts and contain abundant glass. Both are friable being made up of < 1 mm rock/soil fragments bonded by glass. They could be pieces of the sample but in their present state, they cannot be fitted together.
14082	rock	breccia	Samples 14082/14083 are white rocks collected at Station C1, 1.24 km ENE of the LM and 17 m SE of the rim of Cone Crater. They are representative of one of the major rock types as seen in lunar photo documentation. The sample was chipped from the top of White Rock, a 1 m breccia boulder with consipicous 1 cm dark and light clasts in a very light gray matrix. This sample was placed in bag 13N and returned in ALSRC 1006. By the time it had arrived at the LRL, it had broken into two pieces and these were numbered 14082 and 14083. Sample 14082 was studied extensively by the Ibrium Consortium, from which much of this information is derived. Sample 14082/14083 is one of the white rocks. It is a polymict breccia with a very light gray matrix and darker lithic clasts.
14083	rock	breccia	Samples 14082/14083 are white rocks collected at Station C1, 1.24 km ENE of the LM and 17 m SE of the rim of Cone Crater. They are representative of one of the major rock types as seen in lunar photo documentation. The sample was chipped from the top of White Rock, a 1 m breccia boulder with consipicous 1 cm dark and light clasts in a very light gray matrix. This sample was placed in bag 13N and returned in ALSRC 1006. By the time it had arrived at the LRL, it had broken into two pieces and these were numbered 14082 and 14083. Sample 14082 was studied extensively by the Ibrium Consortium, from which much of this information is derived. Sample 14082/14083 is one of the white rocks. It is a polymict breccia with a very light gray matrix and darker lithic clasts.
14084
14140
14141	soil-general	soil	Samples 14140, 14141, 14142, 14143, 14144 and 14068, 14069, 14070, 14071, and 14072 were collected 3 meters from the rim of a 15 meter crater just south of Cone crater. 14141 is a surface soil identified by crew as a light gray layer, 14068 through 14072 is a sample of some surface rocks in the area. The area near the rim of Cone crater is strewn with boulders up to 3 meters.
14142
14143
14144
14148		soil	14145, 14146, 14147, and 14148 collected from the top of the trench; 14153, 14154, 14155, and 14156 is mixed material from the middle two layers, 14080 and 14081 below that, and 14073, 14074, 14075, 14076, 14077, 14078, and 14079 and 14149, 14150, 14151, and 14152 from the bottom of a 40 cm trench. Astronaut Shepard reports the surface fines were so loose the trench walls kept falling in and layered materials were mixed. Bottom layers have pebble in it.
14149		soil	14145, 14146, 14147, and 14148 collected from the top of the trench; 14153, 14154, 14155, and 14156 is mixed material from the middle two layers, 14080 and 14081 below that, and 14073, 14074, 14075, 14076, 14077, 14078, and 14079 and 14149, 14150, 14151, and 14152 from the bottom of a 40 cm trench. Astronaut Shepard reports the surface fines were so loose the trench walls kept falling in and layered materials were mixed. Bottom layers have pebble in it.
14156		soil	Trench sample collected at Station G 30 m NE of North Triplet crater. 14145, 14146, 14147, and 14148 collected from the top of the rench, 14153, 14154, 14155, 14156 is mixed material from the middle two layers including a thin layer of glassy pebbles, 14080 and 14081 below that, and 14073, 14074, 14075, 14076, 14077, 14078, 14079, 14149, 14150, 14151, and 14152 from the bottom of the 40 cm trench. Astronaut Shepard reports the surface fines were so loose the trench walls kept falling in the layered materials mixed.
14163		soil	14160, 14161, 14162, 14163, 14402, 14422, 14425 through 14453 collected 15 m NW of LM. Samples collected from the bottom of a 1 m crater with glass in the bottom; Astronaut Shepard identifies the crater as secondary. Sample area is level and free of large blocks.
14165
14166
14167
14168		basalt
14169		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14170		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14171		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14172		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14173		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14174		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14175		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14176			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14177			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14178			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14179		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14180			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14181		basalt	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14182			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14183			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14184			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169 - 14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14185			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169-14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14186			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169-14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14187			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples ( 14169-14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14188			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. These samples (14169-14188) contain a seriate distribution of clasts as large as two centimeters across. The samples are all polymict breccias with fragmental matrices.
14189
14194	rock	breccia	Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is a light gray, moderately friable, polymict breccia which appears to be bounded by freshly broken surface.
14195	rock		Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is a coherent, medium to dark gray, fragmental rock.
14196	rock		Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is a friable, polymict breccia similar to 14051 or 14066.
14197			Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is very fine grained and appears to be completely recrystallized.
14198			Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is a crystalline rock.
14199	rock	basalt	Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is a freshly fractured, polymict breccia.
14200	rock	basalt	Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is a fragment of very fine grained basaltic crystalline rock.
14201	rock	breccia	Weigh bag 1031 was used on the traverse during the second EVA. Samples 14194-14201 are small rock fragments that were left in weight bag 1031 after samples 14306-14311 were removed. Their lunar location and orientation are unknown and there are no lunar surface photographs of these samples. Some of these are probably pieces broken off the larger rocks during transit. This sample is a fine grained polymict breccia similar to 14042.
14210	core
14211	core
14220	core
14230	core	soil	Intended to be a triple core tube, but driving became hard after a tube and a quarter, and material in the top tube fell out. Area generally level and free of large blocks. This sample from the top of three stratigraphic units of core.
14240
14250			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14250 is a medium gray, blocky, subangular, moderately friable, seriate fragmental rock.
14251			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14251 is a medium gray, blocky, friable, fragmental rock.
14252	rock		The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14252 is a medium gray, friable, fragmental rock. It is subround to angular, appearing to be 1/4 of a sphere.
14253	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14253 is a gray, angular, block, homogeneous, crystalline breccia.
14254	rock	soil	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14254 is gray soil, adhering to frothy black glass and is highly irregular in shape.
14255	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14255 is a medium gray, subangular, blocky, friable fragmental rock.
14256			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14257			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14258			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14259		soil	This scoop sample is part of the comprehensive sample collected 110 m WNW of LM along with 14165 through 14189, 14250 through 14289, 14298 through 14300, and 14420. All samples were collected from within a 4 m circle drawn by Astronaut Shepard. Astronaut Mitchell reports, "The number of surface rocks, or rocks compared with the number of surface fines is very small Houston. There's a few boulders lying around and there's a few blocks around some of the craters, but by and large, it's a powdery surface."
14260		soil	Surface soil sample is part of comprehensive sample collected 110 WNW of LM with 14165 through 14189, 14250 through 14289, 14298 through 14300 and 14421. All samples, including many walnut sized rocks were collected within a 4 m circle drawn by Astronaut Shepard. 14260 was collected from the top 1 cm of an undisturbed region with this circle. Area is generally level and free of boulders.
14261			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14263			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14264	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14264 is a dark gray, blocky, tough fragmental rock, described by Phinney et al. (1975) as a vitric (matrix) breccia.
14265	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14265 is angular, with half the surface coated with dark greenish gray to black glass. The rock is a medium dark gray, coherent fragmental rock.
14266	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14266 is a light medium gray, rounded, slabby, tough, fragmental matrix, polymict breccia.
14267	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14267 is a blocky, angular, dark gray, tough, vitric (matrix) breccia.
14268	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14268 is described by Phinney et al. (1975) as a blocky, medium dark gray, vitric (matrix) breccia.
14269	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14269 is a dark medium gray, frgmental microbreccia with one rounded side.
14270	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14270 is a blocky, medium greenish gray fine-grained crystalline breccia.
14271	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14271 is a blocky, dark medium vitric (matrix) breccia with light gray clasts.
14272	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14272 is a blocky medium dark gray coherent vitric (matrix) breccia.
14273	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14273 is a medium dark gray, vitric (matrix) breccia.
14274	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14274 is a light medium gray, blocky, tough, crystalline, polymict breccia.
14275	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14275 is a medium light gray, blocky, polymict breccia.
14276	rock	basalt	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14276 is a brownish-gray, blocky, coherent, medium-grained, crystalline rock.
14277	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14277 is a dark gray, blocky, coherent vitric (matrix) breccia.
14278	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14278 is a medium light gray, subrounded, coherent, low-grade, polymict breccia.
14279	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14279 is medium light gray in color, blocky, rounded to subrounded in shape, and is a coherent, polymict breccia with a fragmented matrix.
14280	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14280 is a medium dark gray, angular block of vitric (matrix) breccia.
14281	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14281 is a medium dark gray, subrounded to angular block of coherent, vitric (matrix) breccia.
14282	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14282 is a medium gray, friable, fragmental rock (soil breccia).
14283	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14283 is a light gray, slabby, angular, coherent, crystalline, polymict breccia.
14284	rock		The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14284 is a subrounded, medium gray, coherent, fragmental rock.
14285	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14285 is a light medium gray, coherent, polymict breccia.
14286	rock		The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14286 is a medium brownish-gray fragmental rock.
14287	rock		The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14287 is a medium brownish gray, coherent, fragmental rock that is blocky and angular in shape.
14288	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14288 is a medium dark gray, vitric (matrix) breccia. It is blocky and angular in shpe and is coherent.
14289			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Sample 14288 is a medium dark gray, vitric (matrix) breccia. It is blocky and angular in shpe and is coherent.
14290		soil	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14291		soil	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14292		soil	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14293		soil	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14294		breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Weigh bag 1038 was used to hold rocks and fragments from Station H, EVA-2. The largest samples are numbered 14312-14320 and the residue is 14290-14297. Samples 14294-14297 are the largest fragments of the residue. Sample 14294 is a breccia with one rounded side and one angular side. It is grayish brown on the rounded surface and light to medium gray on the fresh surface.
14295	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Weigh bag 1038 was used to hold rocks and fragments from Station H, EVA-2. The largest samples are numbered 14312-14320 and the residue is 14290-14297. Samples 14294-14297 are the largest fragments of the residue. Sample 14295 is a fine grained, polymict breccia with 5% clasts larger than 1 mm and 95% matrix grains smaller than 1 mm in size.
14296	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Weigh bag 1038 was used to hold rocks and fragments from Station H, EVA-2. The largest samples are numbered 14312-14320 and the residue is 14290-14297. Samples 14294-14297 are the largest fragments of the residue. Sample 14296 is a light ray, angular, flat, polymict breccia chip.
14297	rock	breccia	The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs. Weigh bag 1038 was used to hold rocks and fragments from Station H, EVA-2. The largest samples are numbered 14312-14320 and the residue is 14290-14297. Samples 14294-14297 are the largest fragments of the residue. Sample 14297 is a polymict breccia with an unusual clast mineralogy.
14298			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14299			The purpose of the Comprehensive Sample (14169-14188; 14250-14299) was to acquire a statistically significant set of small rock samples to petrographically characterize the distribution of rock types in the lunar regolith. The sample location was selected 100 to 125 m west of the LM. A two to three meter diameter circle was marked and all of the walnut sized rocks on the surface within the circle were collected with tongs.
14300
14301	rock	breccia	Sample 14301 is one of two samples (14301 and 14313) collected at Station G1, 150 m east of the LM on the north rim crest of North Triplet Crater during the second EVA. According to the astronauts, the rock appeared to be similar to the other rocks in the area; these appear to be ejecta from North Triplet Crater. Except for samples dug from trenches, 14301 was the most deeply buried rock returned during the Apollo 14 mission (Swann et al., 1977). This sample was larger then anticipated, and was placed directly in weigh bag 1031 (?) by the astronauts. Sample 14301 is a moderately coherent, light medium gray, polymict breccia. It consists of at least 20% clasts larger than 1mm.
14302	rock
14303	rock	breccia	These samples (14303 and 14304) are pieces of a football-size rock collected from a location 80 m NNW of the LM during EVA 1. This rock was almost completely buried in the regolith and its orientation is unknown. Both of these samples have freshly broken surfaces. They were first identified as pieces of the same rock in March, 1977, when the models of the rock were found to fit together along their freshly broken surfaces. They share a common lithology which is especially evident along the broken surfaces. These samples were returned together in weigh bag 1027 which also contained samples 14305/302 and various smaller chips (see Phinney et al., 1975). These samples were examined in the CRA and NNPL by the PET< and 14303 was extensively distributed for scientific experimentation. Sample 14304 has been designated a posterity sample. This rock (14303) is a coherent, gray, block to subrounded breccia.
14304	rock	breccia	These samples (14303 and 14304) are pieces of a football-size rock collected from a location 80 m NNW of the LM during EVA 1. This rock was almost completely buried in the regolith and its orientation is unknown. Both of these samples have freshly broken surfaces. They were first identified as pieces of the same rock in March, 1977, when the models of the rock were found to fit together along their freshly broken surfaces. They share a common lithology which is especially evident along the broken surfaces. These samples were returned together in weigh bag 1027 which also contained samples 14305/302 and various smaller chips (see Phinney et al., 1975). These samples were examined in the CRA and NNPL by the PET, and 14303 was extensively distributed for scientific experimentation. Sample 14304 has been designated a posterity sample.
14305	rock	breccia	broken apart during transit to LRL and numberd 14305 / 14302 and 14303 / 14304; sample 14302 was later renumbered 14305,18. The sample is a medium gray, holocrystalline, clast rich breccia which has been well-sintered together.
14306	rock	breccia	Sample 14306 is a fragmental rock collected at station G, 230 meters ESE of the lunar module (LM), and 50 meters E of the rrim crest of North Triplet Crater. It is said to be somewhat more tabular and less irregular than 60 cm boulder but similar to it in color and albedo. The lunar location and orientation are well documented. This sample is gray with ~25% white clasts and is blocky in shape. The rock is a coherent breccia.
14307	rock	breccia	Breccia sample 14307 was collected during the second EVA at station G. This sample was not well-documented because its position had already been changed by the time it was collected. There are no lunar surface photographs of 14307, and its lunar orientation is only known through surface pitting. The rock was placed in documented bag 25N and returned to weigh bag 1031. This is a block, subrounded rock with an irregular surface. The color varies from white to dark gray. The rock is friable, but suffieciently strong to prevent clasts from falling out.
14308
14309	rock	breccia	Sample 14309 was collected sometime during the second EVA. No lunar-surface photographs were made, nor are the location and orientation known. The sample was returned in weight bag 1031 with other grap samples from EVA 2. Sample 14309 is a moderately friable, vitric matrix breccia.
14310	rock	basalt	Crystalline Sample 14310 was collected during the second EVA at Station G. The collection was not well documented -- no lunar-surface photographs were made, and the orientation is known only from surface pitting. This rock is a medium, gray, blocky melt rock, which is subrounded on the pitted sides. It is fine grained and homogeneous in mineralogy.
14311	rock	breccia	Breccia sample 14311 was collected during EVA 2 at station Dg. Lunar surface photographs were not taken and the orientation is estimated from surface pitting. Sample 14308 consisted of 3 pieces which PET found to have been part of 14311 and are included herein. These three pieces were renumbered 14311,26; 14311,64; and 14311,65. This sample is a gray coherent breccia which is broken into pieces along fractures. There are only a few fragments >1 mm (<5%) and the rock is mostly (95%) crystalline matrix.
14312	rock	breccia	Sample 14312 is a breccia collected from the top of Turtle Rock during EVA 2 at Station H. Its lunar orientation and location were well documented. Turkle Rock is the largest of several boulders at Station H, and the two rocks on it were nicknamed "turtle eggs", and collected as samples 14312 and 14319; rock is medium gray, coherent breccia which is partly covered with glass.
14313	rock	breccia	Breccia sample 14313 was collected during the second EVA at Station G1, 150 m east of LM, on north rim crest of North Triplet Crater. It was placed in documented bag 27N. Its lunar location and orientation are well documented. This is a medium light gray, coherent, fragmental breccia with a distrinctive shape due to a prominent notch produced by spalling along two sets of fractures intersecting at an angle of 150 degrees.
14314	rock	breccia	Sample 14314 is a breccia sample collected during the second EVA at Station H. It was collected from the fillet below Turtle Rock, 80 meters NW of the LM. The fillet slopes 2-3 degrees to the flat regolith and has abundant rocks up to 30 cm in size distributed in it. The rock is a friable breccia, medium to light gray on its fresh surface and dark brownish gray elsewhere. Approximately 40% of the surface is glass covered.
14315		breccia	Sample 14315 is a breccia collected from Station H (North Boulder Field) during EVA 2. Its lunar location is documented as bieing 15 m SE of Turtle Rock and 70 m NW of the LM, but the lunar orientation is tentative. It was returned in weight bag 1038. This coherent, gray breccia has a rounded surface and an angular flat underside.
14316	rock	breccia	Sample 14316 is a breccia collected at Station H during EVA 2. It has not been identified in lunar surface photographs, so its exact lunar location and orientation are unknown. It was returned in weigh bag 1038. This rock is a medium gray, inhomogeneous, fragmental breccia with one flat face. There is a predominance of leucocratic clasts.
14317	rock	breccia	Breccia sample 14317 was collected at Station H during the second EVA but has not been identified in the North Boulder Field photographs, so its lunar location is tentative, and lunar orientation, unknown. It was returned in weigh bag 1038. This rock is a medium gray, coherent breccia.
14318	rock	breccia	Breccia sample 14318 was collected from the regolith near the south end of North Boulder Field at Station H during the second EVA. It was returned in weigh bag 1038. Sample 14318 is one of the specimens chosen for study by the Imbrium Consortium, who received 14318,0. A complete set of matched thin sections, across the entire specimen was made by the Consortium (1976); This sample is a very coherent, gray, polymict breccia consisting of light gray clasts in a medium gray matrix.
14319	rock	breccia	Breccia sample 14319 is the western rock from the top of Turtle Rock ("turtle eggs"). This sample as well as 14312 were collected from Turtle Rock at Station H during the second EVA and returned in weigh bag 1038. Its lunar orientation and location have been well documented. It appears to be similar to Turtle Rock and the other rocks in the area. This is alight-medium gray coherent breccia which is flat on one side and rounded on the other side.
14320		breccia	This breccia was collected from North Boulder Field from Station h during EVA 2. The sample has not been identified in lunar surface photographs so the lunar location is only tentative and the lunar orientation is unknown. Sample 14320 was returned in weight bag 1038. This is a medium gray, coherent, polymict breccia.
14321	rock	breccia	largest sample returned during Apollo 14 mission; also known as "Big Bertha". This sample is the third largest sample returned by any Apollo mission. This breccia was collected during the second EVA at Station C1, near the rim of Cone Crater. A voice transcript made during the collection, as well as a more detailed discussion of the lunar environment can be found in Geological Survey Professional Paper 880 (Swann et al., 1977). The sample was returned in bag 1038. This large sample is typical of the apparently dominent rock type in the Cone Crater ejecta blanket. It is a moderately well-indurated breccia, in which predominately dark clasts are set in a lighter matrix. The relative abundance of this rock type suggests that it is probalby representative of the Fra Mauro Formation. This rock, 14321, is a partly annealed, moderately coherent polymict breccia. The blocky surface is gray with patches of black and white.
14411
14414
14421
14426	rock	breccia	This sample is a polymict breccia which is broken into two pieces which are similar. The sample is a friable, fine grained, polymict breccia with textural and mineralogic homogeniety.
14427	rock		This sample is a fine grained clastic rock composed of white feldspar and black glass.
14428	rock	breccia	Sample 14428 is a vesicular breccia with a crystalline matrix.
14429	rock	breccia	Sample 14429 is a slightly vesicular polymict breccia similar to 14428.
14430		breccia	Sample 14430 is a medium to light gray, polymict breccia
14431	rock		Sample 14431 is a light gray, crystalline rock
14434
14435	rock		Sample 14435 is a holocrystalline, equigranular, coherent rock which appears to have been freshly broken.
14436	rock		Sample 14436 is a brownish gray sample which may be either an igneous rock or a dense, fine grained, fragmental rock.
14437	rock		Sample 14437 is a fragmental rock with all grains smaller than 1 mm and no lithic fragments.
14438	rock		Sample 141438 is a medium to light brownish gray, fragmental rock.
14439	rock		This sample consists of two, small, subequal pieces of a fragmental rock.
14440	rock		This sample is a blocky, angular, medium gray, holocrystalline rock with smooth, unpitted surfaces.
14441	rock		This is a medium to dark gray, coherent, fragmental rock with a pronounced conical shape.
14442	rock		Sample 14442 is a small, blocky, friable, medium gray fragment which resembles siltstone in appearance.
14443	rock		The sample is a dust covered, slightly elongated, holocrystalline rock.
14444	rock		This is a very light gray, coherent, holocrystalline rock with 4% megacrysts.
14445	rock	breccia	Sample 14445 is a blocky, subangular, medium gray, hackly, polymict breccia with moderate cohesiveness.
14446	rock		This sample consists of four small chips of plagioclase-rich rock.
14447	rock		This small sample is blocky and angular in shape, it has a very hackly surface. It appears to be an agglometation of fine grained clastics that is held together with glass.
14448	rock		This sample is an agglomerate of fine grained, clastic rocks held together by spatter glass.
14449	rock		Sample 14449 is a gray, friable, freshly broken chip of clastic rock.
14450	rock		The sample is an agglomerate of friable, clastic clods bonded by dark gray to honey brown vesicular glass.
14451	rock		This sample is a very light gray, coherent, massive, inequigranular, holocrystalline rock.
14452	rock		Sample is a fine grained, gray, clastic rock.
14453	rock	breccia	This is a banded, light gray, slightly flattened, breccia chip.
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Apollo 15
Sample Number	Sample Type	Lithology	Description
15000	rake
15001	core		Deep core 15001 through 15006 was taken at Station 8, 5 m southeast of the trench. Area has a smooth hummocky surface with fine grained material and rare cobble-sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. Astronauts report a hard layer at a depht of 35 cm at the trench; this layer may exist in the core as well.
15002	core		Deep core 15001 through 15006 was taken at Station 8, 5 m southeast of the trench. Area has a smooth hummocky surface with fine grained material and rare cobble-sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. Astronauts report a hard layer at a depht of 35 cm at the trench; this layer may exist in the core as well.
15003	core		Deep core 15001 through 15006 was taken at Station 8, 5 m southeast of the trench. Area has a smooth hummocky surface with fine grained material and rare cobble-sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. Astronauts report a hard layer at a depht of 35 cm at the trench; this layer may exist in the core as well.
15004	core		Deep core 15001 through 15006 was taken at Station 8, 5 m southeast of the trench. Area has a smooth hummocky surface with fine grained material and rare cobble-sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. Astronauts report a hard layer at a depht of 35 cm at the trench; this layer may exist in the core as well.
15005	core		Deep core 15001 through 15006 was taken at Station 8, 5 m southeast of the trench. Area has a smooth hummocky surface with fine grained material and rare cobble-sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. Astronauts report a hard layer at a depht of 35 cm at the trench; this layer may exist in the core as well.
15006	core		Deep core 15001 through 15006 was taken at Station 8, 5 m southeast of the trench. Area has a smooth hummocky surface with fine grained material and rare cobble-sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. Astronauts report a hard layer at a depht of 35 cm at the trench; this layer may exist in the core as well.
15007	core		Double core 15007 through 15008 was collected at Station 2, 5m SE of the large boulder on the rim of a 10m crater. Local concentrations of clods on the crater rim, but the site mostly has fine grained character. Lack of blocks suggests a mature, intensely gardened regolith.
15008	core		Double core 15007 through 15008 was collected at Station 2, 5m SE of the large boulder on the rim of a 10m crater. Local concentrations of clods on the crater rim, but the site mostly has fine grained character. Lack of blocks suggests a mature, intensely gardened regolith.
15009	core
15010	core		Double core 15010-15011 was collected at Station 9A 20 m N of the rim of Hadley Rille. The site is level with no fresh craters apparent; fragments <20 cm are common, boulders >1m are scattered. Core area was undisturbed by footprings before sampling, even the uppermost part of the core should be undisturbed.
15011	core	soil	Double core 15010-15011 was collected at Station 9A 20 m N of the rim of Hadley Rille. The site is level with no fresh craters apparent; fragments <20 cm are common, boulders >1m are scattered. Core area was undisturbed by footprings before sampling, even the uppermost part of the core should be undisturbed.
15012		soil	Soil collected with rock fragments 15260 through 15264 from the bottom of a trench dug into the south rim of a 12 m cratr at Station 6. The rim of this crater is asymmetric; the north rim is hard, granular, and littered with fragments, and the south rim is softer and smoother.
15013		soil
15014	soil-general		15014 was placed in a special environmental sample container (SESC) which has remained unopened to date (2010).
15015	rock	regolith breccia	Coherent, glassy matrix breccia containing abundant glass balls, shards, and schlieren
15016		basalt	Lunar Sample 15016 is a highly vesicular, olivine-normative, basalt with a major element composition similar to that of non-vesicular basalt 15555. It is a medium-grained basalt with subhedral phenocrysts of zoned pyroxene (1-2 mm) and olivine (~1 mm) set in a matrix of subophitic intergrowths of pyroxene and plagioclase.
15017			Ryder (1985) gives a description of 15017. It is a very vesicular glass with numerous included mineral grains. Only the outside surface was smooth and shiny. Some interior vesicles were open to the outside. There were a few zap pit on some of the surface, but little accretionary material.
15018
15019
15020		soil	This is the contingency sample collected 12 m west of the LM +Z footpad. The surface material here is soft and fine grained. The sample was taken on a small flat between two subdued 1 m craters. The sample sieved includes a 1.1g glass coated microbreccia, but excludes a 77 gm coherent breccia.
15021
15024
15025	soil-general	breccia	15025 was included in the collection of the contingency sample for Apollo 15. It is a typical soil breccia.
15026
15027		breccia	15027 and 15028 are both glass-coated breccias found together near the LM.
15028		breccia	15027 and 15028 are both glass-coated breccias found together near the LM.
15030	soil-general		At Station 8, Astronaut Irwin dug the deep trench; samples 15030 through 15034 were taken from the bottom of the trench. The trench area is similar to the area near the ALSEP, a smooth, hummocky surface of fine grained material with rare, cobble sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. The trench wall was described by the astronauts as uniform, with perhaps a slight color darkening in the middle part, above a hard layer which was not penetrated, but just reached at a depth of about 35 cm.
15031
15032
15033
15034
15040	soil-general		At Station 8 Astronaut Irwin dug the deep trench; samples 15040 through 15044 were taken from the tope of the trench. The trench area is similar to the area near the ALSEP, a smooth, hummocky surface of fine grained material with rare, cobble sized fragments not visibly related to any particular crater. The trench wall was described by the astronauts as uniform, with perhaps a slight color darkening in the middle part, above a hard layer which was not penetrated, but just reached at a depth of about 35 cm. One small fresh crater occurs a few meters north of the trench, but it is too distant to add a significant layer of ejecta to the top of the trench area.
15041
15042
15043
15044
15058		basalt
15059		regolith breccia	Ryder (1985) described 15059 as a "tough regolith breccia containing mare basalt and KREEP basalt and abundant glass, in a glassy matrix. A thin very vesicular glass coat covers most of the sample and intrudes it along fractures."
15065		basalt	15065 is a coarse-grained mare basalt that is about 3.35 b.y. old.
15070		soil	Soil 15070, rock sample 15075, and rock sample 15076 were taken from a small area about 25 m east of the rim of Elbow crater at Station 1. The samples were taken as the middle part of a three part radial sample of the ejecta blanket of Elbow crater. The soil and two rock samples were placed in the same sample bag.
15071
15072
15073
15074	rake
15075		basalt	15075 was one of several basalt samples collected as a radial sample near the rim of Elbow Crater (15065 through 15085). They all appear to be similar (Ryder 1985) . 15077 is interpreted as a "sister" sample to 15076.
15076		basalt	15076 is a coarse-grained, porphyritic pigeonite basalt with subophitic matrix. It has been dated at 3.35 b.y. and has been exposed on the lunar surface for ~300 m.y. (Elbow Crater ?). The top surface is rounded with numerous micrometeorite craters.
15080
15081
15082
15083
15084
15085		basalt	It is one of the samples collected as a suite, from different distances from a small crater (15065 to 15085). It is a is about 3.4 b.y. old and is coarse-grained, quartz-normative mare basalt (catalog reports 5 mm) dominated by pigeonite.
15086		regolith breccia	Soil 15080 and two cobble-sized rocks, 15085 and 15086, were collected at Station 1 about 65 m east of the Elbow crater ejecta rim. This collection was the farthest from the rim of the three part radial sample of ejecta blanket. In the local area of this sample, the general ejecta blanket appears smooth with scattered cobble sized rocks. A chip from friable breccia 15086 was put through freeze-thaw cycling and ultrasonic vibration to disaggregate, then sieved.
15087
15088
15090		soil	Samples 15090 through 15093 and 15095 were collected near a large boulder at Station 2. The regolith is notable for its fine texture. Coherent fragments larger than a centimeter in diameter are scattered, and none larger than 10 cm in diameter occur within the immediate sample locality. The soil can be assumed representative of the mature, well gardened regolith composed of St. George crater ejecta plus whatever exotic components have been admixed since the St. George impact.
15091		soil	15091 is a surface soil and should be compared with the top of the double drive tube 15008 collected nearby.
15092
15093
15095		breccia
15100	rake	soil	Sample was collected at the rake sample site 5m east of the large rock at Station 2. The mature fine grained regolith with a few scattered fragments up to about 10 cm in diameter is characteristic of the entire Station 2 area and presumably represents intensely gardened St. George ejecta to which some ejecta from impacts elsewhere in the Apennine Mountains and Imbrium basin have been added. This sample has not been studied.
15101
15102
15103
15104
15105		basalt	According to Swann et al. (1972), lunar basalt 15105 as a small rock (peanut) collected with soil from station 2 at Apollo 15. It is a fine-grained, olivine-normative mare basalt with relic olivine phenocrysts
15115	rake	basalt	15115 is a relatively coarse basalt and was collected as a rake sample from station 2, Apollo 15..
15116	rake	basalt	15116 was collected as part of a rake sample from station 2, Apollo 15 (Swann et al. 1972). It is a coarse grained pyroxene-rich mare basalt and has not been dated.
15117	rake	basalt	Collected by rake as part of a comprehensive sample taken at station 2, Apollo 15 (near St. George Crater and the Hadley Rille); a coarse-grained pigeonite basalt similar to 15115 and 15116. It has been dated at 3.35 ± 0.04 b.y.
15118	rake	basalt	Lunar sample 15118 was collected by rake as part of a comprehensive sample; chemically it is a quartz-normative basalt with pyroxene phenocrysts set in a fine groundmass. It has not been dated.
15119	rake	basalt	15119 is an olivine-normative mare basalt with a microporphyritic texture. The phenocrysts are small, sparse, and yellow-green olivines. A regolith breccia adheres to the basalt, hence the basalt is actually a clast. The basalt is tough; the regolith breccia is friable and brownish-gray. Zap pits occur on the regolith breccia, and the basalt has a few vugs.
15124
15125	rake	basalt	It is a pyroxene-phyric basalt, with numerous skeletal pyroxenes and some olivine embedded in a dark, cryptocrystalline matrix (quench texture). The composition and texture of 15125 are similar to that of larger sample 15597.
15135
15145	rake	breccia	Olivine-normative mare basalt breccia
15146
15147
15148
15200		soil	Soil 15200 and fragments 15201 through 15206 were broken from the 1 m boulder at Station 2. The boulder appears to be an ejecta fragment from a relatively recent impact of another site. The boulder may have impacted at a low angle and rolled uphill onto the rim of its own secondary crater. Sample area is generally flat and free of fragments. Carrier notes that this is an unrepresenative collection of rock chips and loose soils found at the bootm of a sample bag.
15201		soil	These soil were collected adjacent to the small boulder at station 2, Apollo 15. 15205 and 15206 were chipped off of the boulder and when 15205 was picked up, some soil (19201) was placed in same bag. !5211 was collected as a “fillet” sample of the boulder
15202
15203
15204
15205		breccia	15205 is noteworthy in that it contains a high percentage of KREEP basalt fragments as clasts, but also contains fragments of the mafic green glass, and mare basalt found in the Apollo 15 regolith. 15205 has not been dated, but it has an exposure age of 169 m.y. It has a thin coating of vesicular glass on most surfaces, such that it must have broke free from the boulder along an interior glass vein. Micormeteorite carters on an exposed surface have been carefully studied.
15206		impact melt breccia	It is a vesicular glassy breccia containing KREEP basalt and mare basalt clasts. Unlike 15205 the clasts are shocked and penetrated by glass and there is a higher proportion of matrix (figure 3). It is an impact melt rock, that was probably generated from a regolith. Unlike 15205 the clasts are shocked and penetrated by glass and there is a higher proportion of matrix. It is an impact melt rock, that was probably generated from a regolith.
15208
15210		soil	Samples 15210 through 15214 are soil samples collected from the rim of the secondary impact crater made by the large rock at Station 2. Samples 15210 through 15214 lie on the south crater rim. 15210, 15220, and 15230 are all representative of the fine grained upper part of the regolith at Station 2. Except for the large boulder itself, the immediate sample area is underlain by sub-centimeter fines with a few scattered consolidated fragments no larger than 10 cm in diameter.
15211		soil	These soils were collected adjacent to the small boulder at station 2, Apollo 15. 15205 and 15206 were chipped off of the boulder and when 15205 was picked up, some soil (19201) was placed in same bag. 15211 was collected as a "fillet" sample of the boulder
15212		soil	Samples 15210 through 15214 are soil samples collected from the rim of the secondary impact crater made by the large rock at Station 2. Samples 15210 through 15214 lie on the south crater rim. 15210, 15220, and 15230 are all representative of the fine grained upper part of the regolith at Station 2. Except for the large boulder itself, the immediate sample area is underlain by sub-centimeter fines with a few scattered consolidated fragments no larger than 10 cm in diameter.
15213		soil	Samples 15210 through 15214 are soil samples collected from the rim of the secondary impact crater made by the large rock at Station 2. Samples 15210 through 15214 lie on the south crater rim. 15210, 15220, and 15230 are all representative of the fine grained upper part of the regolith at Station 2. Except for the large boulder itself, the immediate sample area is underlain by sub-centimeter fines with a few scattered consolidated fragments no larger than 10 cm in diameter.
15214		soil	Samples 15210 through 15214 are soil samples collected from the rim of the secondary impact crater made by the large rock at Station 2. Samples 15210 through 15214 lie on the south crater rim. 15210, 15220, and 15230 are all representative of the fine grained upper part of the regolith at Station 2. Except for the large boulder itself, the immediate sample area is underlain by sub-centimeter fines with a few scattered consolidated fragments no larger than 10 cm in diameter.
15220		soil	Sample 15220 was collected from the rim of the secondary impact crater made by the large rock at Station 2, about 1 meter northeast of the large rock. Samples 15210, 15220, and 15230 are all representative of the fine grained upper part of the regolith at Station 2. Except for the large boulder itself, the immediate sample area is underlain by sub-centimeter fines with a few scattered consolidated fragments no larger than 10 cm in diameter.
15221
15222
15223
15224
15230		soil	Sample 15230 was collected at Station 2 from underneath the boulder which was rolled over by the crew. All soil samples collected at Station 2, 15210, 15220, and 15230 are representative of the fine grained upper part of the regolith at Station 2. Except for the large boulder itself, the immediate sample area is underlain by the sub centermeter fines whith a few scattered consolidated fragments no longer than 10 cm in diameter.
15231		soil
15232
15233
15234
15240		soil	Samples 15240 through 15245 and 15250 through 15255 were collected from the floor and rim respectively of a 1m crater 20m upslope of the LRV at Station 6. The crew described the crater as a "fresh little crater" and noted a concentration of clods up to 10 cm on an otherwise smooth, fine grained surface. Approximately half of the sample collected here are pieces of glassy breccia >1cm not included as part of the soil (15245). There are only a few fragments >1cm in the area surrounding the crater, and all other craters in the area are subdued. The general slope of the area dips 10 degrees to the north.
15241		soil	Samples 15240 through 15245 and 15250 through 15255 were collected from the floor and rim respectively of a 1m crater 20m upslope of the LRV at Station 6. The crew described the crater as a "fresh little crater" and noted a concentration of clods up to 10 cm on an otherwise smooth, fine grained surface. Approximately half of the sample collected here are pieces of glassy breccia >1cm not included as part of the soil (15245). There are only a few fragments >1cm in the area surrounding the crater, and all other craters in the area are subdued. The general slope of the area dips 10 degrees to the north.
15242		soil	Samples 15240 through 15245 and 15250 through 15255 were collected from the floor and rim respectively of a 1m crater 20m upslope of the LRV at Station 6. The crew described the crater as a "fresh little crater" and noted a concentration of clods up to 10 cm on an otherwise smooth, fine grained surface. Approximately half of the sample collected here are pieces of glassy breccia >1cm not included as part of the soil (15245). There are only a few fragments >1cm in the area surrounding the crater, and all other craters in the area are subdued. The general slope of the area dips 10 degrees to the north.
15243		soil	Samples 15240 through 15245 and 15250 through 15255 were collected from the floor and rim respectively of a 1m crater 20m upslope of the LRV at Station 6. The crew described the crater as a "fresh little crater" and noted a concentration of clods up to 10 cm on an otherwise smooth, fine grained surface. Approximately half of the sample collected here are pieces of glassy breccia >1cm not included as part of the soil (15245). There are only a few fragments >1cm in the area surrounding the crater, and all other craters in the area are subdued. The general slope of the area dips 10 degrees to the north.
15244		soil	Samples 15240 through 15245 and 15250 through 15255 were collected from the floor and rim respectively of a 1m crater 20m upslope of the LRV at Station 6. The crew described the crater as a "fresh little crater" and noted a concentration of clods up to 10 cm on an otherwise smooth, fine grained surface. Approximately half of the sample collected here are pieces of glassy breccia >1cm not included as part of the soil (15245). There are only a few fragments >1cm in the area surrounding the crater, and all other craters in the area are subdued. The general slope of the area dips 10 degrees to the north.
15245	soil-general	regolith breccia	Samples 15240 through 15245 and 15250 through 15255 were collected from the floor and rim respectively of a 1m crater 20m upslope of the LRV at Station 6. The crew described the crater as a "fresh little crater" and noted a concentration of clods up to 10 cm on an otherwise smooth, fine grained surface. Approximately half of the sample collected here are pieces of glassy breccia >1cm not included as part of the soil (15245). There are only a few fragments >1cm in the area surrounding the crater, and all other craters in the area are subdued. The general slope of the area dips 10 degrees to the north.
15250		soil	Sample collected from the east rim of a 1m crater approximately 20 m southeast and upslope from the LRV at Station 6. The crater is marked by a concentration of fragments, primarily clods up to 10 cm in diameter, on an otherwise smooth, finely granular surface. It was described by the crew as a "fresh little crater" and it is superposed on the south wall of a subdued 3 m crater which has no visible ejecta material around it. Sample 15240 is collected from the floor of the same 1 m crater.
15251
15252
15253
15254
15255		breccia	15257 is clearly part of 15255 that broke off of during transport. 15255 and 15257 are a coherent breccia with finegrained dark matrix. The texture and high content of rare gas confirms that it was a regolith sample.
15256	rock	breccia	15256 is a rare type of lunar breccia, made up of mostly mare basalt fragments, that are welded together; is rounded, aphanitic, coherent and covered with micrometeorite craters on most sides. It is made up of fragments of olivine-normative basalt and lacks fragments of pyroxene basalt (the other main variety of Apollo 15 basalt). The sample lacks a signature of meteoritic siderophiles and was not a soil. This rock has not been dated.
15257		breccia	These two samples were returned in a bag that also contained a large basalt (15256). They both contain a thin vesicular glass splash on one side. 15257 is clearly part of 15255 that broke off of during transport. This sample was collected at station 6 on the Apennine Front 15255 and 15257 are a coherent breccia with inegrained dark matrix. The texture and high content of rare gas confirms that it was a regolith sample..
15258
15259
15260		soil	Rock sample 15012 and soil 15260 were collected from the bottom of a trench dug into the south rim of a 12 meter diameter crater 10-15 meters downslope from the LRV at Station 6. Sample 15012 was also collected at the bottom of this trench and placed in a Special Environmental Sample Container. The surface where the trench was dug is littered with fragments ranging from .5 - 2 cm size, but distinctly fewer than on the north rim of the same crater. This may have prompted the astronaut's remarks that the south rim was softer and the north rim more granular.
15261		soil
15262
15263
15264
15265		regolith breccia	Basalt fragment colected from the rim of a 12m, subdued crater at Station 6, the furthest point east sampled on the Appennine front during this mission. This basalt fragment is probaby exotic. Fragment was disaggregated with 4480 cycles of freeze/thaw and sonic disaggregation.
15266		breccia
15267		breccia
15268
15269
15270		soil	Sample was a large soil sample collected from the compressed wheel track behind the LRV which was parked on a slope of 10-15 degres toward the north. The adjacent undisturbed soil surface appears to be typical of the coarsely granular texture at Station 6. The immediate vicinity is 5-7% covered by centimeter size clods, and is lacking in fresh craters or coherent looking rock fragments.
15271		soil	Surface soil 15271 was collected from the rover track as part of the soil mechanics experiment and contains numerous friable "soil breccias" which may be compressed material from the rover track
15272
15273
15274
15281
15282
15283
15284
15285		regolith breccia	Samples 15285 through 15288 (and 15268) were all collected from the rim of a small crater at station 6 and returned in the same bag. They are breccia fragments from the same location as 15265. Consist of all components of the soils in a fragmental, perhaps partly glassy matrix and contains, besides ophitic and intersertal basalts, plagioclase breccias, troctolites, noritic fragments, glass and individual mineral grains.
15286		breccia	It is a coherent glassmatrix soil breccia, similar to other samples collected at same time. Ryder (1985) even suggests that 15286 may be spalled from 15265-15267, but that seems impossible because glass wraps around the particle.
15287		breccia	a coherent regolith breccia with zap pits on one side. It is porous, with abundant glass particles including green glass. Lithic clasts include mare basalt and KREEP basalt.
15288		breccia	Lunar breccias 15288 and 15289 were collected from the rim of a small crater at station 6 on the Apennine Front - along with 15265, 15285 and 15286. All of these samples are similar regolith breccias. They are relatively coherent with glass-cemented matrix.
15289		regolith breccia	Lunar breccias 15288 and 15289 were collected from the rim of a small crater at station 6 on the Apennine Front - along with 15265, 15285 and 15286. All of these samples are similar regolith breccias. They are relatively coherent with glass-cemented matrix.
15290		soil	Soil sample 15290 was collected with fine grained breccia 15295 10 to 15 meters south of the LRV. Soil 15290 includes soil from the immediate area and possible some fragments from 15295 which may have disintegrated in transit and handling into additional fines. This comminution of the breccia enriches the large size fractions of this soil and degrades the pristinity of the grain size distribution.
15291		soil	coarse-fine particles; The grain size distribution indicates that some fragments may have broken off of the large rock.
15292
15293
15294
15295		regolith breccia	Glassy matrix regolith breccia with conspicuous white clasts and vesicular glass veins. It was distinctive because of its large size and angularity, and because it had a fillet on its uphill side. It is medium light gray, tough, and penetrated with glass. It has a few zap pits on some surfaces.
15297		regolith breccia
15298		regolith breccia	Regolith breccia with a glassy matrix containing numerous small glass, mineral, and lithic fragments.
15299	rock	regolith breccia	The bulk sample is brownish, with small white clasts. It is a coherent soil breccia with inclusions of glass found in the regolith (McKay et al. 1989). Fractures have slickensides.
15300	rake	soil	15300 was collected at Spur crater at Station 7 to accompany the comprehensive rake sample; 15305 through 15308, and 15315 through 15312. The sample area has moderately abundant small fragments on and near the rim crest of Spur crater.
15301	rake	soil	part of a comprehensive sample collected at Spur Crater including rake sample 15310 and soils 15410, 15420 and pedestal 15431. The rim of Spur Crater had a significant number of small rock on the surface. This is the location of the Apollo 15 "green glass" and 15301 contained many beads of this interesting lunar material.
15302
15303
15304
15305
15306	rake	regolith breccia
15307		breccia	The Apollo 15 catalog states: "15307 is a fragile, hollow glass sphere, with a lip. It is dark green/black. Its surface is smooth with very few zap pits. One side is shiny; the other dusty. The sample is broken slightly, revealing its hollowness, and at least where it is broken the walls are thin. It has never been processed or allocated. It was observed by the astronauts on the lunar surface and put in the container with soil".
15308		impact melt breccia	It is a clast-rich impact melt rock with high content of trace elements. It has not been successfully dated.
15310
15311	rake		Soil sample 15310 was collected as part of a large rake sample and may contain material rubbed off of the friable rocks collected by the rake. On the other hand, it is certain to also contain some soil collected by the rake and/or attached to the rocks. In any case 15311 is a large soil sample that goes along with 15301 and it has about the same composition.. The fines from this sample have not been characterized.
15312
15313
15314
15315	rake	breccia	15306 is a regolith breccia collected as part of a large soil (15300) and rake sample (15310) at Spur Crater. 15315, 15324, 15325 and 15330 are additional large soil breccias from the same rake sample, and there are many smaller fragments from the same sample (Butler 1972; Ryder and Sherman 1989). They all contain green glass spheres, distinctive of the soil and breccias samples at Spur Crater.
15316
15317
15318
15319
15320
15321
15322
15323
15324	rake	breccia	15306 is a regolith breccia collected as part of a large soil (15300) and rake sample (15310) at Spur Crater. 15315, 15324, 15325 and 15330 are additional large soil breccias from the same rake sample, and there are many smaller fragments from the same sample (Butler 1972; Ryder and Sherman 1989). They all contain green glass spheres, distinctive of the soil and breccias samples at Spur Crater.
15325	rake	breccia	15306 is a regolith breccia collected as part of a large soil (15300) and rake sample (15310) at Spur Crater. 15315, 15324, 15325 and 15330 are additional large soil breccias from the same rake sample, and there are many smaller fragments from the same sample (Butler 1972; Ryder and Sherman 1989). They all contain green glass spheres, distinctive of the soil and breccias samples at Spur Crater.
15326
15327
15328
15329
15330	rake	breccia	15306 is a regolith breccia collected as part of a large soil (15300) and rake sample (15310) at Spur Crater. 15315, 15324, 15325 and 15330 are additional large soil breccias from the same rake sample, and there are many smaller fragments from the same sample (Butler 1972; Ryder and Sherman 1989). They all contain green glass spheres, distinctive of the soil and breccias samples at Spur Crater.
15331
15332
15333
15334
15335
15336
15337
15338
15339
15340
15341
15342
15343
15344
15345
15346
15347
15348
15349
15350
15351
15352
15353
15354
15355
15356	rake	impact melt breccia	It is a very finegrained impact melt rock and has been dated at 3.84 b.y. (the apparent age of the Imbrium event). It should be compared with 15357 and 15359.
15357	rake	impact melt breccia	It has been dated at 3.85 b.y. and should be compared with 15356 and 15359. It may be a rare piece of the Imbrium melt sheet.
15358	rake	breccia	It is a glass-matrix breccia that contains clasts of KREEP basalt
15359	rake	impact melt breccia	It is a fine-grained mciropoikilitic impact melt with mineral clasts, and has a KREEP-like chemical composition. It has been dated at ~3.86 b.y. and should be compared with impact melt rocks 15356 and 15357.
15360
15361
15362	rake		It is a cataclastic ferroan anorthosite that proved difficult to date. It has an old exposure age (428 m.y.).
15363
15364
15365
15366
15367
15368
15369
15370
15371
15372
15373
15374
15375
15376
15377
15378
15379		basalt	finegrained mare basalt; Ryder (1985) states that: "15379 is a finegrained mare basalt containing about 20% stubbyangular and partly "hollow" plagioclase, abundant brownish pyroxene, and at least some olivine and ilmenite". Plagioclase is milky, but not maskelynite. Both plagioclase and pyroxene have deformed twinning. Veins of dark glass, containing bubbles, crosscut the sample and show evidence of flow. Ryder (1985) finds that sample 15380 is very similar to 15379. It also has shock features and glass veins.
15380	rake	basalt	finegrained mare basalt; Ryder (1985) finds that sample 15380 is very similar to 15379. It also has shock features and glass veins. Ryder (1985) states that: "15379 is a finegrained mare basalt containing about 20% stubbyangular and partly "hollow" plagioclase, abundant brownish pyroxene, and at least some olivine and ilmenite". Plagioclase is milky, but not maskelynite. Both plagioclase and pyroxene have deformed twinning. Veins of dark glass, containing bubbles, crosscut the sample and show evidence of flow.
15381
15382	rake	basalt	pristine feldspathic basalt with high rare-earth-element content. Only a few pristine samples of this important rock type were returned from the moon, also including 15386 and fragments in 15434 and other Apollo 15 soils. These fragments were recognized as samples of chilled volcanic liquid and have been a source of much speculation
15383
15384
15385	rake	basalt	These small samples are found to have high Mg content, probably due to olivine accumulation (another “picritic basalt” from Apollo 15 is found as a large clast in breccia sample 15459). The formation of 15385 has been dated at 3.4 b.y. with exposure to cosmic rays for about 280 m.y.
15386		basalt	15386 is the largest sample of pristine KREEP basalt in the collection. By pristine we mean that it is lacking in meteoritical siderophiles (Ir, Re, Au etc), and hence not contaminated by meteorite debris. Thus it is thought to represent an indogenous lunar volcanic melt derived from the lunar interior (see discussion in 15382).
15387		basalt	These small samples are found to have high Mg content, probably due to olivine accumulation (another "picritic basalt" from Apollo 15 is found as a large clast in breccia sample 15459). The formation of 15385 has been dated at 3.4 b.y. with exposure to cosmic rays for about 280 m.y.
15388		basalt	a pigeonite basalt with long pyroxene crystals. It has not been dated.
15389
15390
15391
15392
15400		soil	Soil 15400 and green breccia 15405 were collected from the singular rounded 3 meter long boulder and from an apparent fillet developed high on the south side of the boulder. Relatively few fragments occur in the vicinity of the rock. Most are angular and lie on the fillet, but sparse fragments are found with random distribution in all directions. The samples are probably representative of the boulder and its disintegration products which may typify the composition of its fillet.
15401		soil	is very immature and it has an unusual grain size distribution weight towards large particles. The average grain size distribution of 15401 is 89 microns.
15402
15403
15404
15405	rock	breccia	clast-bearing impact-melt rock with a crystalline matrix made up of fine-grained intergrown pyroxene, plagioclase and ilmenite laths (figure 6). Prominent clasts include mineral fragments of plagioclase and pyroxene, along with lithic clasts of KREEP basalt, granite and quartz monzodiorite (QMD). Flow banding in the matrix includes small irregularly-shaped vugs.
15410		soil	Collected at Station 7 from the summit of the subdued rim crest of Spur Crater. Local surface is moderately well populated with rock fragments up to tens of centimeters across. The sample area is characterized however by the abundance of less than 1 cm size fragments. Several large fragments in the sample have been excluded from the grain size analysis.
15411
15412
15413
15414
15415	rock	anorthite	Anorthite. Corse-grained, ferroan crystalline rock with complex cataclastic and metamorphic history. Pale, blocky, angular to subrounded sample, which was originally partly dust-covered.
15416
15417
15418		breccia	is a highly-shocked, granulitic breccia that has a chemical composition of "gabbroic anorthosite" – and has, from time to time, been considered as representative of a portion of the original lunar crust. 15418 has been dated at 4.04 b.y., with an exposure age of 250 m.y. It has micrometeorite craters on all sides.
15419
15421
15422
15423
15424
15425	soil-general	breccia	The green glass clods (15425, 15426 and 15427) are partially light-greenish-gray and partly grayish-brown - it is the greener parts that have been studied.
15426	soil-general	breccia	The green glass clods (15425, 15426 and 15427) are partially light-greenish-gray and partly grayish-brown - it is the greener parts that have been studied.
15427	soil-general	breccia	The green glass clods (15425, 15426 and 15427) are partially light-greenish-gray and partly grayish-brown - it is the greener parts that have been studied.
15430		soil	Sample collected at Station 7, 5 meters inside of the north rim of Spur Crater. A clod and a soil were collected together as a surface sample. The clod tended to break down and degrade the size distribution for this soil. Station 7 was moderately well populated with rock fragments up to tens of centimeters across.
15431		soil
15432
15433
15434
15435		breccia	This is probably the material from the "pedestal" that 15415 was perched on. After 15415 was picked off the top, the pedestal was broken up and several pieces collected from the soil. It was returned in the same bag as 15430 through 15437. This sample has not been studied.
15436		impact melt breccia	15436 is a vesicular, fine-grained melt which includes mineral grains and lithic fragments. It is a round black and white rock with a chalky white dust covering.
15437
15445		breccia	This sample and its close companion (15455) are thought to be ejecta from the Imbrium Basin. Their exposure ages (~200 m.y.) may help date the age of Spur Crater where they were found.
15455		breccia	Together, these two breccia samples (15455 and 15445) and the nearby boulder, are thought to represent ejecta from the Imbrium Basin
15459		regolith breccia	Lunar sample 15459 is a large, dense, regolith breccia from Spur Crater which has a mineral, glass and chemical composition like that of the local soil.
15465		breccia	15465 and 15466 are a collection of breccia fragments cemented together with a vesicular black glass.
15466		glassy impact melt breccia	15465 and 15466 are a collection of breccia fragments cemented together with a vesicular black glass.
15467		breccia
15468		breccia
15469
15470		soil	Soil 15470 and basalts 15475, 15476 and gabbro 15495 were collected at Station 4, 28 m southeast of the rim crest of Dune crater. The surface surrounding the samples has a moderate cover of fragments, small craters in the sample area are sparse. Two large fragments in the sample were excluded from grain size analysis.
15471		soil	coarse fine particles
15472
15473
15474
15475		basalt	Soil 15470 and basalts 15475, 15476 and gabbro 15495 were collected at Station 4, 28 m southeast of the rim crest of Dune crater. The surface surrounding the samples has a moderate cover of fragments, small craters in the sample area are sparse. Two large fragments in the sample were excluded from grain size analysis.
15476		basalt	Soil 15470 and basalts 15475, 15476 and gabbro 15495 were collected at Station 4, 28 m southeast of the rim crest of Dune crater. The surface surrounding the samples has a moderate cover of fragments, small craters in the sample area are sparse. Two large fragments in the sample were excluded from grain size analysis.
15477
15478
15485		basalt	15485 and 15486 are samples of vitrophyric pigeonite basalt, a rapidly cooled variety of quartz-normative basalt found to be rather common at the Apollo 15 site. They are very vesicular with porphyritic, diktytaxitic texture. The age of this boulder is 3.4 b.y. and it has an exposure age of 114 m.y. (determined on 15499).
15486		basalt	15485 and 15486 are samples of vitrophyric pigeonite basalt, a rapidly cooled variety of quartz-normative basalt found to be rather common at the Apollo 15 site. They are very vesicular with porphyritic, diktytaxitic texture. The age of this boulder is 3.4 b.y. and it has an exposure age of 114 m.y. (determined on 15499).
15487
15495		basalt	Soil 15470 and basalts 15475, 15476 and gabbro 15495 were collected at Station 4, 28 m southeast of the rim crest of Dune crater. The surface surrounding the samples has a moderate cover of fragments, small craters in the sample area are sparse. Two large fragments in the sample were excluded from grain size analysis. It has been studied for its magnetic properties, but has not been dated. The orientation of 15495 was documented by photographs, but there are micrometeorite craters on S, T, B and E surfaces indicating that the rock has rolled.
15498	rock	regolith breccia	A coherent, glassy matrix breccia with components mainly of mare derivation, including basalt fragments and glass.
15499		basalt	top surface of 15499 is rounded with micrometeorite craters, whille the bottom suface is freshly broken. The radiometeric age of this boulder is ~3.4 b.y., with an exposure age of 114 m.y.
15500		soil	Collected at Station 9, Scarp crater. This surface sample was collected 10 m from the rim of a 10 meter diameter fresh crater. The surface is saturated with "raindrop depressions" and fragments less than 1 cm in diameter.
15501	rake	soil
15502
15503
15504
15505		breccia	glass matrix breccia with an abundance for mare basalt clasts
15506		regolith breccia	15506 and 15508 are glass-coated pieces of regolith breccia similar to 15505 in the same bag and may be pieces of the larger breccia - see also section on 15501. They have not been studied and there are no thin sections.
15507		other	15507 is made up of three glass particles that fit together as a hollow egg. It has not been subdivided nor studied. There is a zap pit on the interior wall of the large vesicle, proving that it was already broken on the lunar surface (Ryder 1985).
15508		breccia	15506 and 15508 are glass-coated pieces of regolith breccia similar to 15505 in the same bag and may be pieces of the larger breccia – see also section on 15501. They have not been studied and there are no thin sections.
15514
15515		regolith breccia	15515 is brown, very friable, porus and full of glass particles.
15528
15529		basalt	Lunar sample 15529 is a very vesicular mare basalt that remains unstudied. Dirt fills some vesicles, but not all, and the sample has no obvious zap pits.The sample is light olive gray, rounded, tough, and very vesicular. It had a 3-cm high fillet, but has no zap pits.
15530		soil	15530 was collected with a suite of rocks, fragments, and cores at Station 9A. The soil sample was taken about 20 m east of the rim of Hadley Rille, its exact location has not been identified on the surface photographs. The ground slopes gently from the sample site toward the rim of Hadley Rille; rock fragments on the surface become increasingly abundant as the rille rim is approached.
15531			15501 and 15511 were collected from the rim of a small crater at station 9, while 15531 was collected at station 9a (near Hadley Rille).
15532
15533
15534
15535	rock	basalt	is a fine-grained, olivine-bearing mare basalt in which fine-grained pyroxenes are enclosed in poikilitic plagioclases and olivine phenocrysts are scattered. It is finer-grained than 15536, chipped from the same boulder.
15536		basalt	is a fine-grained, olivine-bearing mare basalt in which fine-grained pyroxenes are enclosed in poikilitic plagioclases and olivine phenocrysts are scattered. 15535 is finer-grained than 15536 chipped from the same boulder.
15537
15538
15545	rock	basalt	This potato-shaped rock has the remains of very large glass lining from micrometeorite impacts as well as prominent patina from glass splashes.
15546	rock	basalt	The samples are similar, with a rather coarse-grained, granular texture. Olivine grains are found in the centers of pigeonite. Opaque minerals are found in groups.
15547		basalt	The samples are similar, with a rather coarse-grained, granular texture. Olivine grains are found in the centers of pigeonite. Opaque minerals are found in groups.
15548
15555		basalt	("Great Scott") is both the largest and the most intensively studied of the Apollo 15 rocks. It is a medium-grained olivine basalt, with a few percent small vugs. It is probably very close to a liquid composition, i.e., it contains few, if any, accumulated crystals. It crystallized ~3.3 b.y. ago. Unlike other nearby rocks, 15555 was not dust-coated. It is generally tough, but many exterior chips fell off during earth transit and many of these pieces are friable. It is sub-rounded and blocky, with many zap pits.
15556	rock	basalt	medium-grained, extremely vesicular olivine-normative basalt containing small olivine phenocrysts.
15557		basalt
15558	rock	regolith breccia	Regolith breccia derived mainly from mare components.
15560
15564
15565		regolith breccia	Regolith breccia fragments ranging from friable to coherent. At the end of the third EVA during Apollo 15, the astronauts collected loose undocumented samples from the regolith as ‘grab’ samples and placed them in sample collection bag #2. The residue from this bag (about 38 pieces) was numbered together as 15565.
15577
15595		basalt	a finegrained, porphyritic mare basalt with conspicuously irregularly distributed vugs
15596		basalt	a finegrained, porphyritic mare basalt with conspicuously irregularly distributed vugs. 15596 has the same texture but with somewhat larger pyroxenes, and a groundmass that is more crystalline.
15597		basalt	pyroxene vitrophyre consisting mainly of acicular pyroxene phenocrysts, typically with a glass core, set in a matrix of brown glass which shows incipient crystallization in only a few places.
15598		basalt	a fine-grained, olivine-phyric basalt consisting of scattered olivine phenocrysts 0.6 to 1.3 mm across, set in an intergranular matrix of plagioclase, pyroxene, and opaques
15600		soil	This comprehensive soil was collected at Station 9A to accompany the rake samples 20 m northeast of the rim of Hadley Rille. The surface around the sample is smoth, level, and locally free of rock fragments greater tha 5 cm across. The general vicinity is littered with fragments commonly up to 20 cm across and a few sparse scattered boulders greater than a meter across.
15601		soil	The large soil sample and the adjacent rake sample contained many olivine-normative basalt samples (156xx). Only about 2/3 of the soil sample was sieved, with about 400 grams remaining unsieved. Small rocks are described separately
15602
15603
15604
15605		basalt	15605, 15606 and 15607 are small fragments of Ferich mare basalt collected as >1 cm "walnuts" from largest soil sample 15600. 15605 is coarse-grained, 15606 is medium-grained and 15607 is fine-grained. 15606 is very vesicular. They are all examples of olivine-normative basalt with low silica content and with some olivine.
15606		basalt	15605, 15606 and 15607 are small fragments of Ferich mare basalt collected as >1 cm "walnuts" from largest soil sample 15600. 15605 is coarse-grained, 15606 is medium-grained and 15607 is fine-grained. 15606 is very vesicular. They are all examples of olivine-normative basalt with low silica content and with some olivine.
15607		basalt	15605, 15606 and 15607 are small fragments of Ferich mare basalt collected as >1 cm "walnuts" from largest soil sample 15600. 15605 is coarse-grained, 15606 is medium-grained and 15607 is fine-grained. 15606 is very vesicular. They are all examples of olivine-normative basalt with low silica content and with some olivine.
15608	rake	basalt	consists of numerous skeletal pigeonite mcirophenocrysts in a finer-grained variolitic groundmass of pyroxene, plagioclase and opaque minerals
15609
15610	rake	basalt	Rake fragments 15610, 15633, 15641, 15643 and 15663 are grouped together because they are relatively coarse-grained samples of the abundant olivinenormative Apollo 15 basalt clan
15611
15612	rake
15613	rake
15614	rake	basalt	chemical composition is that of an olivine-normative basalt, but olivine does not form obvious phenocrysts.
15615	rake
15616	rake	basalt	Their chemical composition is that of an olivine-normative basalt, but olivine does not form obvious phenocrysts.
15617	rake
15618	rake
15619	rake
15620	rake	basalt	Pyroxene, olivine and plagioclase form an interlocking network that is "peppered" by minute opaque minerals; ilmenite and spinel
15621	rake
15622	rake	basalt	chemical composition is that of an olivine-normative basalt, but olivine does not form obvious phenocrysts.
15623	rake	basalt	Pyroxene, olivine and plagioclase form an interlocking network that is "peppered" by minute opaque minerals; ilmenite and spinel
15624	rake
15625	rake
15626	rake
15627	rake
15628	rake
15629	rake
15630	rake	basalt	chemical composition is that of an olivine-normative basalt, but olivine does not form obvious phenocrysts.
15631	rake
15632	rake
15633	rake	basalt	Rake fragments 15610, 15633, 15641, 15643 and 15663 are grouped together because they are relatively coarse-grained samples of the abundant olivinenormative Apollo 15 basalt clan
15634	rake	basalt	Ryder (1985) provides the only description these particles. Although he calls them "coarse grained", the grain size is still less than 1 mm
15635	rake
15636	rake	basalt	At over 300 grams it is the largest of the rake samples. It is a coarse-grained olivine-normative basalt rather typical of Apollo 15. It has not been dated.
15637	rake
15638	rake
15639	rake	basalt	Ryder (1985) provides the only description these particles. Although he calls them "coarse grained", the grain size is still less than 1 mm
15640	rake
15641	rake	basalt	Rake fragments 15610, 15633, 15641, 15643 and 15663 are grouped together because they are relatively coarse-grained samples of the abundant olivinenormative Apollo 15 basalt clan
15642	rake
15643	rake	basalt	Rake fragments 15610, 15633, 15641, 15643 and 15663 are grouped together because they are relatively coarse-grained samples of the abundant olivinenormative Apollo 15 basalt clan
15644	rake
15645	rake
15646	rake
15647	rake	basalt	15647 is a relatively large, relatively coarse-grained olivine basalt.
15648	rake	basalt	15648 is brecciated and partially shock-melted and 15649 may also be shocked. They are members of the olivine-normative clan of Apollo 15 basalts.
15649	rake	basalt	15648 is brecciated and partially shock-melted and 15649 may also be shocked. They are members of the olivine-normative clan of Apollo 15 basalts.
15650	rake
15651	rake	basalt	a medium-grained olivine-bearing mare basalt with microgabbroic texture
15652	rake
15653	rake
15654	rake
15655	rake
15656	rake
15657	rake
15658	rake	basalt	Ryder (1985) provides the only description: "15658 is a medium-grained, olivine-bearing basalt. Pigeonites range from 1 to 2 mm long and are twinned and zoned. Most plagioclases for stubby crystals up to about 1 mm, some of which are hollow. Some radial growth of plagioclase and pyroxene is present. Olivine forms scattered anhedral phenocrysts, and smaller grains are present, many as inclusions in pigeonite. Cristobalite, fayalite, and a range of opaque phases are present." No mode is given.
15659	rake	basalt	vesicular, olivine-normative basalts with about medium grain size. The average grain size is about 1 mm. 15659 has been dated at 3.34 ± 0.04 b.y.
15660	rake
15661	rake	basalt	rounded surface from micrometeorite bombardment (and is sort of shaped like a golf ball). However, it is vesicular, vuggy and has a few olivine phenocrysts; typical of olivine-normative basalts.
15662	rake	basalt	It is a vesicular olivine-normative basalt.
15663	rake	basalt	Rake fragments 15610, 15633, 15641, 15643 and 15663 are grouped together because they are relatively coarse-grained samples of the abundant olivinenormative Apollo 15 basalt clan
15664	rake
15665	rake	basalt	Lunar samples 15665 and 15669 are rake samples from the edge of Hadley Rille in an area called The Terrace . They are similar to the rest of the olivine-normative basalt samples from this location, except, perhaps, they contains abundant Fe-rich pyroxene rather than fayalite in the residuum. The habit of ilmenite is also unusual. They have not been dated.
15666	rake	basalt	pyroxene-phyric basalt with a variolitic groundmass. It also includes some olivine.
15667	rake
15668	rake
15669	rake	basalt	Lunar samples 15665 and 15669 are rake samples from the edge of Hadley Rille in an area called The Terrace . They are similar to the rest of the olivine-normative basalt samples from this location, except, perhaps, they contains abundant Fe-rich pyroxene rather than fayalite in the residuum. The habit of ilmenite is also unusual. They have not been dated.
15670	rake
15671	rake
15672	rake	basalt	vesicular, olivine-normative basalts with about medium grain size. The average grain size is about 1 mm.
15673	rake
15674	rake	basalt	fine-grained olivine-normative basalt and they include relict partially-resorbed phenocrysts of olivine.
15675	rake	basalt	fine-grained olivine-normative basalt and they include relict partially-resorbed phenocrysts of olivine.
15676	rake	basalt	fine-grained olivine-normative basalt and they include relict partially-resorbed phenocrysts of olivine.
15677	rake
15678	rake	basalt	fine-grained olivine-normative basalt and they include relict partially-resorbed phenocrysts of olivine.
15679	rake
15680	rake
15681	rake
15682	rake	basalt	has a rounded top surface with well preserved micrometeorite craters. It is a typical Apollo 15 pigeonite basalt, and has been dated at 3.44 b.y.
15683	rake	basalt	fine-grained olivine-normative basalt and they include relict partially-resorbed phenocrysts of olivine.
15684	rake
15685	rake
15686	rake
15687	rake
15688	rake
15689	rake
15695	rake	basalt	These three chips (15684, 15685, 15686) of mare basalt were split out of the station 9a rake sample in 1975 and have not been studied. There are no thin sections.
15696	rake	basalt	These three chips (15684, 15685, 15686) of mare basalt were split out of the station 9a rake sample in 1975 and have not been studied. There are no thin sections.
15697	rake	basalt	These three chips (15684, 15685, 15686) of mare basalt were split out of the station 9a rake sample in 1975 and have not been studied. There are no thin sections.
15698	rake	breccia	It may be a glass covered "bomb" with a lithic fragment inside (Ryder 1985). It has not been studied.
15933
15952
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Apollo 16
Sample Number	Sample Type	Lithology	Description
60001	core		The deep drill string was separated into two sections of three stems each on the lunar surface (60007, 60006 and 60005) and (60004, 60003, 60002 and 60001bit).
60002	core		The deep drill string was separated into two sections of three stems each on the lunar surface (60007, 60006 and 60005) and (60004, 60003, 60002 and 60001bit).
60003	core		The deep drill string was separated into two sections of three stems each on the lunar surface (60007, 60006 and 60005) and (60004, 60003, 60002 and 60001bit).
60004	core		The deep drill string was separated into two sections of three stems each on the lunar surface (60007, 60006 and 60005) and (60004, 60003, 60002 and 60001bit).
60005	core		The deep drill string was separated into two sections of three stems each on the lunar surface (60007, 60006 and 60005) and (60004, 60003, 60002 and 60001bit).
60006	core	soil	Deep core contining samples 60001 through 60007 was drilled at the ALSEP site about 175 m southwest of the LM and 25 m south of the ALSEP central station. The sample area is generally flat with blocks up to 10-15 cm abundant. Deep drill area has the least compacted soil and the highest density of craters in the area. Core stems went easily into the surface.
60007	core		Deep core contining samples 60001 through 60007 was drilled at the ALSEP site about 175 m southwest of the LM and 25 m south of the ALSEP central station. The sample area is generally flat with blocks up to 10-15 cm abundant. Deep drill area has the least compacted soil and the highest density of craters in the area. Core stems went easily into the surface.
60009	core	soil	Drive Tube 60009/60010 was taken at Station 10 bout 100 meters southwest of the LM. Samples were taken from the rim of a subdued 60 cm crater. Fragments on the surface are mostly pear sized; none are larger than a few cm. Grain sizes >1mm may have been handled less so friable fragments would be less likely to break apart.
60010	core	soil	Drive Tube 60009/60010 was taken at Station 10 bout 100 meters southwest of the LM. Samples were taken from the rim of a subdued 60 cm crater. Fragments on the surface are mostly pear sized; none are larger than a few cm. Grain sizes >1mm may have been handled less so friable fragments would be less likely to break apart.
60013	core
60014	core		60014 - 60013 is one of the three cores that were collected close to one another (about 50 m apart) at the ALSEP site at Apollo 16
60015	rock	anorthite	Coherent, very light gray, shock-melted and cataclastic anorthosite; largely coated with vesicular glass up to 1 cm thick
60016		fragmental breccia	a friable breccia disaggregated with 1362 freeze - thaw cycles; surface is relatively unpitted and smooth.
60017	rock	impact melt breccia	The outer surface has a thick patina, while the freshly broken surface is hackly
60018	rock	breccia	relatively inhomogeneous and apparently not used for cosmic-ray-penetration studies. However, it was determined to have a cosmic ray exposure age of 2.1 m.y.
60019	rock	breccia	coherent, medium-gray glassy breccia containing several large, light colored clasts
60025	rock	anorthite	Coarse-grained, moderately shocked, pristine cataclastic ferroan anorthosite
60030
60031
60032
60033
60034
60035		breccia	fine-grained, clast-rich, polymict breccia made up of clasts of ferroan anorthosite, troctolite, troctolitic anorthosite and noritic anorthosite. To date, it remains poorly characterized, and requires further study. Recently, it was dated at 4.09 ± 0.1 b.y. with an exposure to cosmic radiation for about 6 m.y.
60050	rake	soil	contains friable white breccias described by the crew as "caliche - like", and contains abundant fragments <15cm.
60051
60052
60053
60054
60055	rake	soil	walnut-sized particles from soil sample 60050 are what gave the soil a "white" appearance on the lunar surface.
60056	rake	soil	walnut-sized particles from soil sample 60050 are what gave the soil a "white" appearance on the lunar surface.
60057	rake	soil	walnut-sized particles from soil sample 60050 are what gave the soil a "white" appearance on the lunar surface.
60058	rake	soil	walnut-sized particles from soil sample 60050 are what gave the soil a "white" appearance on the lunar surface.
60059	rake	soil	walnut-sized particles from soil sample 60050 are what gave the soil a "white" appearance on the lunar surface.
60070
60075		fragmental breccia	a friable, porous, feldspathic breccia. It has not been well-studied.
60095	rock	green glass vitrophyres	Fractured spheroid of yellow-green to light brown glass
60110
60115	rock	breccia	Glass-bonded polymict breccia; It has not been studied.
60130
60135		breccia	glass covered, round object with a coarsegrained, highly shocked cumulate interior
60210
60215		breccia	actually a polymict breccia, the largest portion is almost pure white and very plagioclase rich. The anorthositic portion is both highly shocked and cataclastic.
60230
60235	rock	basalt	coherent impact melt rock with a mostly basaltic texture; there are micrometeorite craters on all sides and some vesicles are obvious; otherwise, it has not been studied.
60250
60255	rock	breccia	coherent, dark-matrix soil breccia with abundant white clasts, partially coated with a frothy black glass and has few micrometeorite craters.
60270
60275		regolith breccia	glass coated regolith breccia. One side has had the glass coating chipped off by micrometeorite bombardment.
60310
60315		breccia	flat rock, about 4 cm thick, top exposed surface covered with micrometeorite craters, bottom surface is freshly broken and free of zap pits, is 3.87 b.y. old and has been exposed on the surface to cosmic rays for only ~ 4.5 m.y.
60330
60335		impact melt breccia	is aluminous in composition, with relative high trace element content; found to contain substantial Ni, Ir and Au. The Pb/Pb age of 60335 was determined to be 4.08 b.y.
60500	rake	soil	The sample accompanies rake sample 60510. The sieved portion of 60500 did not include any walnut sized rocks (> 1 cm), however, a large portion remains unsieved.
60501	rake	soil
60502	rake	soil
60503	rake	soil
60504	rake	soil
60510	rake
60511	rake
60512	rake
60513	rake
60514	rake
60515	rake		the surface is mostly coated with micrometeorite craters and is cataclastic anorthosite - of the ferroan variety.
60516	rake		the surface is mostly coated with micrometeorite craters and is cataclastic anorthosite - of the ferroan variety.
60517	rake		the surface is mostly coated with micrometeorite craters and is cataclastic anorthosite - of the ferroan variety.
60518	rake		the surface is mostly coated with micrometeorite craters and is cataclastic anorthosite - of the ferroan variety.
60519	rake		the surface is mostly coated with micrometeorite craters and is cataclastic anorthosite - of the ferroan variety.
60520	rake
60521	rake
60522	rake
60523	rake
60524	rake
60525	rake	impact melt breccia	Warner et al. (1976) described 60525 as heterogeneous, with half of matrix with poikilitic texture and half with subophitic texture.
60526	rake		dense, aphanitic, coherent rock fragment. It has a high rare-earth-element and major element content characteristic of KREEP (Meyer 1974).
60527	rake
60528	rake
60529	rake
60530	rake
60531	rake
60532	rake
60533	rake
60534	rake
60535	rake	breccia	typical glass matrix regolith breccias
60600	rake	soil	typical Apollo 16 soil; coarse-fine particles
60601	rake	soil
60602	rake	soil
60603	rake	soil
60604	rake	soil
60610	rake	soil	coarse-fine particles, contained 33 fragments larger than 1 cm
60611	rake
60612	rake
60613	rake
60614	rake
60615	rake	breccia	basaltic impact melt with one large vesicle; coherent, mostly intergranular with olivine and pyroxene confined to intersticies between fine plagioclase laths
60616	rake	breccia
60617	rake	breccia
60618	rake	breccia	tough, light gray rake sample consisting of basaltic impact melt and cataclastic anorthosite; found to be highly aluminous with an age about 4 b.y.
60619	rake	breccia	light gray anorthosite, coherent, recrystallized, plagioclaserich rock with minor glass-splash and a few micrometeorite craters. It has not been well studied.
60620	rake
60621	rake
60622	rake
60623	rake
60624	rake
60625	rake	impact melt breccia	plagioclase-rich, white rock, but it also has high content of REE
60626	rake	impact melt breccia	poikilitic texture, but the plagioclase chadocrysts have indistinct boundaries.
60627	rake	breccia	light colored and must be mostly plagioclase, because it seems large for its weight (low density) and has zap pits with transparent glass linings.
60628	rake
60629	rake		an anorthosite with attached black glass, cataclastic texture and the pyroxenes indicate that this sample is ferroan anorthosite
60630	rake
60631	rake
60632	rake
60633	rake
60634	rake
60635	rake	breccia	igneous rock, basaltic texture.
60636	rake	breccia	clast-rich impact melt, has one of the highest contents of trace elements in the Apollo 16 collection, and has been dated at 3.94 b.y.
60637	rake	breccia	typical glass matrix regolith breccias, glass shards, lithic fragments and mineral fragments in a seriate grain size distribution
60638	rake
60639	rake	breccia	fragmental polymict breccia with a low porosity. A wide variety of clasts is present, a mare basalt and a pristine anorthosite being of particular significance. One side of the subangular rock is covered with a smooth dark glass
60640	rake
60641	rake
60642	rake
60643	rake
60644	rake
60645	rake	impact melt breccia	vesicular fine-grained impact melt with an unusual coloration
60646	rake
60647	rake
60648	rake
60649	rake
60650	rake
60651	rake
60652	rake
60653	rake
60654	rake
60655	rake
60656	rake
60657	rake
60658	rake
60659	rake	breccia	small polymict breccias, contains a number of feldspar-rich clasts in a coherent matrix
60660	rake
60661	rake
60662	rake
60663	rake
60664	rake
60665	rake	breccia	contains chalky white clasts loosely held by black vesicular glass; cataclastic anorthosite
60666	rake	glassy impact melt breccia	glass-coated impact-melt breccias
60667	rake
60668	rake
60669	rake
60670	rake
60671	rake
60672	rake
60673	rake
60674	rake
60675	rake
60676	rake
60677	rake	breccia
60678	rake
60679	rake
61015		breccia	coated with black glass on one side and is thought to be ejecta from South Ray Crater
61016		impact melt breccia	known as "Big Muley"; named after Bill Muehlberger, the leader of the Apollo 16 field geology team
61130
61135		regolith breccia	an ancient regolith breccia that became a closed system about 3.9 b.y. ago; and has a few zap pits
61140		soil
61141
61142
61143
61144
61150
61155	rake	breccia	clastrich "glassy impact melt"; has abundant white clasts, thin glass veins and glassy mesostasis
61156	rock	impact melt breccia	Tough, medium gray, poikilitic impact melt that has been thermally metamorphosed
61160		soil	This surface sample was collected 10 meters Northeast of the rim of Plum crater as part of a radial sample sequence (with 61180, 61500, and 61140). It was collected from a spot disturbed by a footprint. The site is level with fragments <2 cm common and >2 cm sparse. A .75 m boulder is 2 meters north of the sample.
61161
61162
61163
61164
61170
61175	rock	fragmental breccia	contains a high percentage of glass, with some agglutinate. It also contains a small, but significant, mare component.
61180		soil	Innermost of a radial sample sequence with 61500, 61160, and 61140. The site is level until there is a break at Plum crater, fragments <2 cm are common, >10 cm are sparse. Craters <10 cm are dense and craters <1 meter are common. Some of the larger craters are subdued and some are sharp.
61181
61182
61183
61184
61190
61195		breccia	coherent, medium grey breccia with a glassy matrix and abundant clasts; zap pits are surrounded with wide spall zones
61220	rake	soil	Soil color is listed as light olive gray but mission transcripts state, "I just had a good scoopful, and I lost it. Let me dig out a little - another little trench. There she be. Coming up all white. That's all that's in there John."
61221
61222
61223
61224	rake	basalt	contained several white and off-white particles as well as 3 peppered black and white rock fragments that appeared to fit together as one
61225		impact melt breccia	small chip of white material covered with chalky-white dust on most sides
61226
61240		soil	Soil color is listed as light olive gray but mission transcripts state, "I just had a good scoopful, and I lost it. Let me dig out a little - another little trench. There she be. Coming up all white. That's all that's in there John."
61241
61242
61243
61244
61245
61246
61247
61248
61249
61255
61280
61281
61282
61283
61284
61290
61295		breccia	friable light matrix breccia with both light and dark clasts; rounded and has many zap pits
61500	rake	soil	This is part of a radial sample sequence with 61180, 61160, and 61140. The site is level with fragments 1-10 cm sparse and none larger in the area. Craters <3 m are common; most are subdued but one has a sharp rim.
61501
61502
61503
61504
61505
61510	rake		This is part of a radial sample sequence with 61180, 61160, and 61140. The site is level with fragments 1-10 cm sparse and none larger in the area. Craters <3 m are common; most are subdued but one has a sharp rim.
61515	rake	breccia	friable, clastic, seriate and "very light-grey"
61516	rake	breccia	friable, clastic, seriate and "very light-grey"
61517	rake	breccia	friable, clastic, seriate and "very light-grey"
61518	rake	breccia	friable, clastic, seriate and "very light-grey"
61519	rake	breccia	friable, clastic, seriate and "very light-grey"
61525		breccia
61526	rake	breccia	As sorted and described by Phinney et al. (1973) they may all be the same material. Only 61525 has been studied.
61527	rake	breccia	As sorted and described by Phinney et al. (1973) they may all be the same material. Only 61525 has been studied.
61528	rake	breccia	As sorted and described by Phinney et al. (1973) they may all be the same material. Only 61525 has been studied.
61529	rake	breccia	As sorted and described by Phinney et al. (1973) they may all be the same material. Only 61525 has been studied.
61535	rake	basalt
61536	rake	breccia	contains a large white clast held within a glass matrix, and has a thin glass coating on surface
61537	rake	breccia
61538	rake	breccia
61539	rake	breccia
61545	rake	breccia
61546	rake	breccia	vesicular chunk of glass with numerous small white clast and micrometeorite craters on one side only.
61547	rake	breccia	devitrified glass containing small clasts of plagioclase and feldspathic impact melt breccia
61548	rake	breccia	devitrified glass containing small clasts of plagioclase and feldspathic impact melt breccia
61549	rake	breccia	coherent dense impact melt with microlites of mafic minerals in aphanitic matrix
61555	rake	breccia
61556	rake	breccia
61557	rake	breccia
61558	rake	breccia
61559	rake	breccia
61565	rake	breccia
61566	rake	breccia
61567	rake	breccia
61568	rake	impact melt breccia	has two distinct textures (basalt and poikilitic), separated by a sharp boundary
61569	rake	impact melt breccia	coherent impact melt breccia; appears to be different from most pokilitic melt rocks at Apollo 16 because the dominant oikocryst is olivine, rather than pyroxene
61575	rake	breccia
61576	rake	breccia
61577	rake	breccia
62230
62231	rake	soil
62232
62233
62234	rake
62235	rake	breccia	apparently homogeneous, coherent, hollocrystaline impact melt rock with classic poikilitic texture highly enriched in trace elements and siderophile elements and has been dated at 3.88 b.y., with an exposure history of 153 m.y.
62236	rake	soil	found to be a slowly-cooled plutonic rock (Takeda et al. 1979) with an age of ~4.3 b.y. (Borg et al. 1999).
62237	rock	anorthite	chalky white rock
62238
62240	rake
62241
62242
62243
62244	rake	breccia
62245
62246
62247
62248
62249
62250
62255	rock	breccia	has been crushed and granulated by shock and is penetrated with patches and veins of mafic melt
62270
62275		anorthite	very friable, chalky white rock that broke up into powder during handling in curatorial labs and has not been adequately studied.
62280		soil	The sample area is on the south slope of Buster crater, fragments are mostly 5 cm or less, and craters are mostly 5-10 cm. There was a light colored material on the surface of the soil, but none of this high albedo material was found below the surface.
62281		soil
62282
62283
62284	rake	breccia
62285
62286
62287
62288
62289
62290		soil	is the residue from the bag that was used to return rock sample 62295 and may or may not be a proper soil sample
62295	rake	impact melt breccia	blocky coherent impact melt rock with numerous micrometeorite pits on one side and none on the other
62305
62315
62566	rake
62567	rake
63235
63320		soil	63320 is probably the fine grained ejecta from North Ray crater. If Shadow Rock was ejected from North Ray crater, these samples have been virtually undisturbed since the North Ray event.
63321		soil
63322		soil
63323		soil
63324	rake	soil
63335	rake	impact melt breccia	dark grey microbreccia, cut by a light vein of devitrified glass
63340		soil
63341		soil
63342		soil
63343		soil
63344	rake	soil
63355	rake	breccia	Pieces of 63355 have patina and micrometeorite craters
63500	rake	soil	area contains small rocks (2-10 cm) which cover 5% of the surface, fines are less compacted than soil at North Ray crater. Random 1-2 meter fresh to subdued craters are found in the local area. No crater is recognizable in the immediate sample area.
63501
63502
63503
63504	rake
63505	rake
63506	rake	breccia	round particle is coherent and appears to be mostly plagioclase
63507	rake	regolith breccia	friable breccias with a light brown color and is partially coated with black glass
63508	rake	breccia
63509	rake	breccia
63515	rake	breccia
63520	rake
63521	rake
63522	rake
63523	rake
63524	rake
63525	rake	breccia	Phinney et al. (1976) describe these samples together as "tough crystalline breccia".
63526	rake	breccia	Phinney et al. (1976) describe these samples together as "tough crystalline breccia".
63527	rake
63528	rake	breccia	Phinney et al. (1976) describe these samples together as "tough crystalline breccia".
63529	rake	breccia	dark, homogeneous, coherent finegrained impact melt breccias
63530	rake
63531	rake
63532	rake
63533	rake
63534	rake
63535	rake	breccia	small fragments of Impact Melt Rock - some with finegrained basaltic texture; there are numerous small relic clasts that are incorporated in the matrix
63536	rake	breccia	small fragments of Impact Melt Rock - some with finegrained basaltic texture; there are numerous small relic clasts that are incorporated in the matrix
63537	rake	breccia	small fragments of Impact Melt Rock - some with finegrained basaltic texture; there are numerous small relic clasts that are incorporated in the matrix
63538	rake	breccia	glass-matrix breccia with abundant small clasts
63539	rake	breccia	Rake Sample 63548 contains 63539 and 63586 are fragments of fine-grained, coherent impact melt
63540	rake
63541	rake
63542	rake
63543	rake
63544	rake
63545	rake	breccia	coherent impact melt rock with numerous zap pits; has been dated at 3.9 b.y.
63546	rake
63547	rake
63548	rake	breccia	Rake Sample 63548 contains 63539 and 63586 are fragments of fine-grained, coherent impact melt
63549	rake	breccia	rake sample with numerous micrometeorite cratrers; is coherent and appears to be a homogeneous impact melt rock. It has been dated at 3.84 b.y.
63550	rake
63551	rake
63552	rake
63553	rake
63554	rake
63555	rake	breccia	Phinney et al. (1976) describe these samples together as "tough crystalline breccia".
63556	rake	breccia	poikilitic impact melt with the bulk composition of KREEP. It has a few micrometeorite zap pits
63557	rake	breccia	dark, homogeneous, coherent finegrained impact melt breccias
63558	rake
63559	rake	breccia	chunks of dark, vesicular glass with white inclusions
63560	rake
63561	rake
63562	rake
63563	rake
63564	rake
63565	rake	breccia	chunks of dark, vesicular glass with white inclusions
63566	rake	breccia	small glass sample has relatively large white inclusions
63567	rake	breccia	chunks of dark, vesicular glass with white inclusions
63568	rake	breccia	chunks of dark, vesicular glass with white inclusions
63569	rake
63570	rake
63571	rake
63572	rake
63573	rake
63574	rake
63575	rake	breccia	small glass sample has relatively large white inclusions
63576	rake	breccia	chunks of dark, vesicular glass with white inclusions
63577	rake
63578	rake	breccia	a fragmental breccia with at least some glass in the matrix
63579	rake
63580	rake
63581	rake
63582	rake
63583	rake
63584	rake
63585	rake	breccia	impact melt breccia with regions that have basaltic texture and other areas that are poikilitic, and has numerous micrometeorite craters on the surface
63586	rake	breccia	Rake Sample 63548 contains 63539 and 63586 are fragments of fine-grained, coherent impact melt
63587	rake	breccia	a coherent impact melt breccia with a poikilitic texture and numerous clasts and has numerous micrometeorite craters on its surface
63588	rake	breccia	polymict fragmental breccias, with angular clasts of plagioclase, brown glassy breccias, aphanitic melts and feldspathic granulite.
63589	rake
63590	rake
63591	rake
63592	rake
63593	rake
63594	rake
63595	rake	breccia	polymict fragmental breccias, with angular clasts of plagioclase, brown glassy breccias, aphanitic melts and feldspathic granulite.
63596	rake	breccia	fine-grained poikilitic texture where pyroxene oikocrysts surround laths of plagioclase. It is clastic and vesicular.
63597	rake	breccia	63597 and 63598 are extremely porous poikilitic impact melt breccias
63598	rake	breccia	63597 and 63598 are extremely porous poikilitic impact melt breccias
64001	core	soil	Core drilled on Stone Mountain at Station 4, within one crater diameter of a 15 meter subdued doublet crater. The deep sections of the core may contain the best samples of typical Descartes material. The sample area has a 10-15 degree slope to the northwest. There are a few scattered cobbles 5-10 cm. Scattered craters .5 to several meters in diameter are common in the general area, there is a .5 meter crater just southwest of the drive tube.
64002	core	soil	Drive tube 64001 / 64002 collected on Stone Mountain at Station 4, within one crater diameter of a 15 meter subdued doublet crater. The deep sections of the core may contain the best samples of typical Descartes material. The sample area has a 10-15 degree slope to the northwest. There are a few scattered cobbles 5-10 cm. Scattered craters .5 to several meters in diameter are common in the general area, there is a .5 meter crater just southwest of the drive tube.
64420	rake	soil	Soil 64420 was collected with breccia 64475 at Station 4A near Cinco B crater, 5 meters from the LRV on the floor of a subdued 15 meter crater. The soil was taken from the bottom of a 25 cm trench. At the sample area, 5-10 cm pebbles are abundant, 20-40 cm cobbles are common and meter size blocks are sparsely scattered. Scattered craters up to several meters in size are common in the general area. This regolith is probably South Ray ejecta mixed with underlying Descartes material.
64421
64422
64423
64424
64425		breccia	part anorthosite and part impact melt; most surfaces have micrometeorite craters, indicating it had once been a surface sample
64430
64435		breccia	thick shiny black glass coat on one side and numerous micrometeorite pits on the other
64450
64455		impact melt breccia	egg-shaped object about 5 cm long and 3 cm across almost completely covered with thick black glass
64470
64475	rake	breccia	numerous micrometeorite craters; "black and white" rocks with veins of dark impact melt rock intruding white cataclastic anorthosite
64476	rake	breccia	numerous micrometeorite craters; "black and white" rocks with veins of dark impact melt rock intruding white cataclastic anorthosite
64477	rake	breccia	Warner et al. (1973) termed 64477 "cataclastic anorthosite to light matrix breccia plus mesostasis-rich basalt".
64478	rake	breccia	Ryder and Norman (1980) term 64478 a "glass-coated impact melt". The interior has a poikilitic texture in places
64500	rake	soil	Soil 64500 and rake 64510 were collected at Station 4A in the vicinity of Cinco B crater,. The sample area slopes 10-15 degrees to the northwest off Stone Mountain, surface fragments up to 10 cm are abundant, up to 40 cm are common, up to 1 meter sparse. Scattered craters .5 to several meters are in the general area, very subdued and barely visible smaller craters are in the local area. The gray surface is underlain by a white layer.
64501	rake	soil	large number of glass particles
64502	rake
64503	rake
64504	rake
64505	rake
64506	rake
64507	rake
64508	rake
64509	rake
64510	rake
64511	rake
64512	rake
64513	rake
64514	rake
64515	rake
64516	rake
64517	rake
64518	rake
64519	rake
64520	rake
64521	rake
64522	rake
64523	rake
64525	rake
64530	rake
64531	rake
64532	rake
64533	rake
64534	rake
64535	rake	breccia	has a cosmic ray exposure age of 1.9 m.y; a mix of cataclastic ferroan anorthosite with impact melt. In some cases they also have a thick black glass coating
64536	rake	breccia	a mix of cataclastic ferroan anorthosite with impact melt. In some cases they also have a thick black glass coating
64537	rake	breccia	has zap pits on all surfaces; a mix of cataclastic ferroan anorthosite with impact melt. In some cases they also have a thick black glass coating
64538	rake	breccia	micrometeorite craters on all surfaces; majority of the sample is a coherent, medium grey, glassy matrix lithology
64539	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64540	rake
64541	rake
64542	rake
64543	rake
64544	rake
64545	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64546	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64547	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64548	rake	breccia	fine grain mix of chalky white anorthite and dark aphanitic impact melt
64549	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64550	rake
64551	rake
64552	rake
64553	rake
64554	rake
64555	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64556	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64557	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64558	rake	breccia	chalky white portion and a dark aphanitic portion characteristic of the light and dark lithologies
64559	rake	breccia	piece of the dark lithology that is part of the abundant dimict breccias from that location; texture is that of a basalt, but since it includes clasts of anorthite, it is an impact melt breccia
64560	rake
64561	rake
64562	rake
64563	rake
64564	rake
64565	rake
64566	rake	breccia	complex mix of glass and impact melt
64567	rake	breccia	dark coherent aphanitic sample with a few vesicles with abundant olivine oikocrysts and is relatively mafic
64568	rake	breccia	poikilitic texture with a network of pyroxene phenocrysts surrounding small laths of plagioclase with zap pits
64569	rake	breccia	dark coherent aphanitic sample with a few vesicles with abundant olivine oikocrysts and is relatively mafic
64570	rake
64571	rake
64572	rake
64573	rake
64574	rake
64575	rake
64576	rake	breccia	fine-grained irregular basaltic texture with inclusions
64577	rake
64578	rake
64579	rake
64580	rake
64581	rake
64582	rake
64583	rake
64584	rake
64585	rake	breccia	old impact melt with unique texture, brownish color and a devitrified glass matrix
64586	rake
64587	rake
64588	rake
64589	rake
64800		soil	Surface soil 64800 accompanies rake 64810, collected at Station 4B . Blocks and cobbles cover 80-90% of the northeast wall of the main crater, elsewhere the surface is relatively smooth with scattered cobbles. The fines are loose, numerous small crates are found in the sample area.
64801	rake	soil	relatively mature soil with average grain size 80 microns
64802
64803
64804
64810	rake		relatively mature soil with average grain size 80 microns
64811	rake
64812	rake
64813	rake
64814	rake
64815	rake	breccia	impact melt breccia with a coarse poikilitic texture and KREEP-like composition. The age has been determined to be 3.89 ± 0.01 b.y.
64816	rake	breccia	holocrystalline poikilitic impact melt with a crystallization age of 3.85 b.y.
64817	rake	basalt	aluminous basalt with prominent plagioclase laths and an age of 3.84 b.y.
64818	rake	breccia	Phinney et al. (1976) refer to 64818 as a "tough crystalline breccia" with 5% vugs and vesicles
64819	rake
64820	rake
64821	rake
64822	rake
64823	rake
64824	rake
64825	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
64826	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
64827	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
64828	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
64829	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
64830	rake
64831	rake
64832	rake
64833	rake
64834	rake
64835	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
64836	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
64837	rake	breccia	friable rake fragment
65015	rock	impact melt breccia	Poikilitic Impact Melt
65016		breccia	hollow, broken sphere or glass bubble about 3 - 4 cm in size. The glass surface is smooth and without zap pits, and has a green color.
65030
65035	rock	breccia	large clasts of light-colored cataclastic anorthosite intermixed with dark-colored basaltic impact melt; covered or coated with a thick glass coat on one side. An age of 2.29 m.y. indicates that this rock was derived from South Ray Crater.
65050
65055	rock	impact melt breccia	aluminous, basaltic impact melt, is coherent and appears to be homogeneous throughout, and has been determined to be 3.96 b.y old by the Ar/Ar plateau technique
65056	rake	breccia	large glass object that contains interesting white clasts
65070
65075	rake	breccia	greenish gray breccia with a black glass coating
65090
65095		breccia	"chalky white chunk" neatly tucked between the regolith breccia and the black glass coat; friable white matrix with large grey breccia clasts
65310	rake
65315	rake	anorthite	about 8 cm across; abundant micrometeorite pits and patina on this surface;
65325	rake	anorthite	white rocks with a thin coat of black glass; zap pits on the white surfaces where the black glass has apparently been eroded off
65326	rake	anorthite	Moderately coherent cataclastic anorthosite; has a "bronze colored" streak
65327	rake		white rocks with a thin coat of black glass; zap pits on the white surfaces where the black glass has apparently been eroded off
65328	rake
65329	rake
65335	rake
65336	rake
65337	rake
65338	rake
65339	rake
65345	rake
65346	rake
65347	rake
65348	rake
65349	rake
65355	rake
65356	rake
65357	rake	impact melt breccia	Light gray, coherent, poikilitic impact melt , and is rounded and covered with micrometeorite craters
65358	rake	breccia	coherent, but it is angular and more aluminous
65359	rake
65365	rake
65366	rake
65500		soil	Soil 65500 accompanies rake sample 65510. The sample area has no blocks larger tha 30 cm, it is a mostly sandy surface. The fines are loose with a gray surface and whitish subsurface. Numerous small craters are superposed on the 20 meter crater. Friable clods are included in the sample.
65501	rake	soil	soil clods
65502	rake
65503	rake
65504	rake
65510	rake	soil	soil clods
65511	rake
65512	rake
65513	rake
65514	rake
65515	rake	breccia	65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65516	rake	breccia	65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65517	rake	breccia	65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65518	rake	breccia	65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65519	rake	breccia	65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65520	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65521	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65522	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65523	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65524	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65525	rake	breccia	65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65526	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65527	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65528	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65529	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65530	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65531	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65532	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65533	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65534	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65535	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65536	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65537	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65538	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65539	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65540	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65541	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65542	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65543	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65544	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65545	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65546	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65547	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65548	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65549	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65550	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65551	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65552	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65553	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65554	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65555	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65556	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65557	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65558	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65559	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65560	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65561	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65562	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65563	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65564	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65565	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65566	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65567	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65568	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65569	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65570	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65571	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65572	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65573	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65574	rake		65515 to 65574 are a collection of very friable, rounded, brown-colored soil breccias, and have never been studied.
65575	rake
65576	rake
65577
65578	rake
65579	rake
65580	rake
65581	rake
65582	rake
65583	rake
65584	rake
65585	rake
65586	rake
65587	rake
65588	rake
65700	rake	soil	65700 and 65900 are surface soils to accompany the rake samples at Station 5. The sample area has a mostly sandy surface with no large blocks nearby. Fines in the area are extremely loose.
65702	rake
65703	rake
65704	rake
65710	rake	soil	appears to be soil and rake residue from samples 65501, 65601 and 65701.
65711	rake
65712	rake
65713	rake
65714	rake
65715	rake	breccia	Keil et al. (1972) and Ryder and Norman (1981) describe the sample as a friable grey and white breccia with abundant comminuted plagioclase.
65716	rake
65717	rake
65718	rake
65719	rake
65720	rake
65721	rake
65722	rake
65723	rake
65724	rake
65725	rake
65726	rake
65727	rake
65728	rake
65729	rake
65730	rake
65731	rake
65732	rake
65733	rake
65734	rake
65735	rake
65736	rake
65737	rake
65738	rake
65739	rake
65740	rake
65741	rake
65742	rake
65743	rake
65744	rake
65745	rake	breccia	small brown soil breccia, seriate grain size distribution, with glass in the matrix
65746	rake		small brown soil breccia, seriate grain size distribution, with glass in the matrix
65747	rake		small brown soil breccia, seriate grain size distribution, with glass in the matrix
65748	rake		small brown soil breccia, seriate grain size distribution, with glass in the matrix
65749	rake		small brown soil breccia, seriate grain size distribution, with glass in the matrix
65750	rake
65751	rake
65752	rake
65753	rake
65754	rake
65755	rake		small brown soil breccia, seriate grain size distribution, with glass in the matrix
65756	rake		small brown soil breccia, seriate grain size distribution, with glass in the matrix
65757	rake	breccia	glassy object contains relatively large white clasts
65758	rake
65759	rake
65760	rake
65761	rake
65762	rake
65763	rake
65764	rake
65765	rake
65766	rake
65767	rake	breccia	glassy object contains relatively large white clasts
65768	rake
65769	rake
65770	rake
65771	rake
65772	rake
65773	rake
65774	rake
65775	rake
65776	rake
65777	rake	breccia	coherent crystalline impact melt breccia with poikilitic texture; has be dated at 3.7 b.y.
65778	rake	breccia	coherent crystalline impact melt breccia with poikilitic texture
65779	rake	breccia	has a texture described as basaltic, rather than poikilitic; contains clasts of plagioclase, so it was a breccia before it crystallized
65780	rake
65781	rake
65782	rake
65783	rake
65784	rake
65785	rake	breccia	contains a coarse-grained pink spinel troctolite clast in a crystalline feldspathic impact melt rock; has been dated at 3.97 b.y. by one group and 3.83 b.y. by another.
65786	rake	breccia	a coherent, medium grey, polymict breccia with abundant glass in the matrix
65787	rake	breccia	appears to have a ribbon of glass interior
65788	rake
65789	rake	breccia	chalky white rake sample
65790	rake
65791	rake
65792	rake
65793	rake
65794	rake
65795	rake	basalt	basaltic texture, is highly aluminous; has been dated at 3.81 b.y.
65900		soil	a very mature soil with average grain size of 85 microns
65901			very mature soil and has an average grain size of 85 microns
65903
65904
65905		breccia	one of several dense particles found in soil sample 65901
65906
65907
65915
65916
65920	rake		65920 is the residue from a rake sample at the same location.
65925	rake	breccia	rounded, friable soil breccia
65926	rake	breccia	rounded, friable soil breccias
65927	rake	breccia	rounded, friable soil breccia
66030		soil	66030 is a soil collected with an 8 cm breccia. It is supposed that the breccia is local ejecta, but the source crater is not obvious.
66031	rake	soil	very mature soil with an average grain size of 121 microns
66032	rake
66033	rake
66034	rake
66035	rake	breccia	regolith breccia, but has excess 40Ar and has been termed "ancient regolith breccia". 66035 has zap pits on all surfaces so it must have "rolled or jumped" on the regolith.
66036	rake	breccia	regolith breccia, but has excess 40Ar and has been termed "ancient regolith breccia".
66037		breccia	regolith breccia, but has excess 40Ar and has been termed "ancient regolith breccia".
66040		soil	Soils 66040 and 66030 and breccia 66055 were collected at the same location at Station 6. It is supposed that the breccia is local ejecta, but the source crater is not obvious. In the sample area 15-30 cm blocks are relatively common, soil is relatively firm compared to the looser regolith at Stations 4 and 5. Craters in the area are mostly <5 meters.
66041		soil
66042
66043	rake
66044	rake
66050
66055	rock	breccia	complex polymict feldspathic breccia that appears to be intermediate between fragmental breccias and glassy melt breccias, with included abundant rounded patches of brown glass; is ~3.9 b.y. old, with an exposure to cosmic rays for 55 m.y.
66070
66075	rock	fragmental breccia	one of many coherent, light matrix breccias from Apollo 16 and has about equal amounts of both dark and light aphanitic clasts; has been dated at about 3.8 b.y.
66080		soil	an indurated clod of white impact ejecta; possibly from South Ray crater.
66081	rake	soil	collected from a small subdued crater on the Cayley Plain near Stone Mountain
66082
66083	rake
66084	rake
66085
66086
66090
66095	rock	breccia	labeled "Rusty Rock"; has abundant zap pits on one side, and is 3.8 b.y., and cosmic ray exposure is 40-80 m.y.
66236	rake
67015	rake	breccia	fragmental matrix breccia, mostly feldspar, but with a wide range of highland lithologies represented as loose clasts in the matrix; have been dated at 3.9 b.y. and the breccias, itself, has had an exposure to cosmic ray of 51 m.y.
67016		breccia	67016 is a feldspathic fragmental breccia with both light and dark clasts, and is 3.95 b.y. old with an exposure age of 50 m.y.
67020	rake
67025	rake	breccia	glass-coated crystalline rock with basaltic melt surrounding xenoliths of plagioclase.
67035	rock	fragmental breccia	Very friable, light matrix breccia; was found to be 3.95 b.y.
67050	rake
67055	rock	breccia	black and white breccia; high trace element content, but has not been dated.
67070	rake
67075	rock	anorthite	Lunar sample 67075 is very friable. Detailed petrographic description showed that the sample may be a mixture of closely related anorthositic rocks from a layered igneous intrusion, and it has been shown to be 4.47 b.y. old, with about 50 m.y. exposure to cosmic rays
67090
67095		impact melt breccia	a glass-coated basaltic impact melt or "bomb" that has not been dated.
67110
67115		breccia	glass coat is rather thick, but has been fractured and broken off by micrometeorite bombardment
67215	rake	breccia	white polymict breccia made up of mostly calcic plagioclase and a few relict lithic clasts and has lots of zap pits on top and bottom
67235		impact melt breccia	67235 is a large special sample that was collected to study the outer surface of a lunar rock.
67410
67415	rake	breccia	According to Lindstrom and Lindstrom (1986), 67415 is a lightly-shocked, granulitic breccia with a cataclastic matrix.
67430
67435		breccia	grey matrix breccias with both dark and light clasts
67438	rake
67450
67455	rake	breccia	very friable, white polymict feldspathic breccia
67460
67461		soil	chosen as a "reference soil" for the "lunar highland initiative" and is not greatly different from other soil samples from North Ray Crater
67462
67463
67464	rake
67475	rake	breccia	a tough purplish-grey, glassy breccia
67480	rake	soil	Reference soil 67840 accompanies rake sample 67510; sample area is in a local north-south swale, the surface is soft and fine; fragments greater than 10 cm are sparse and the crew reported "sinking in on the slopes about 6 inches."
67481			noticeably coarser grain size and less mature compared with other lunar soils probably due to the fact that NRC is only 50 m.y. old
67482
67483
67484	rake
67485	rake	impact melt breccia	crystalline impact melt
67486	rake
67487	rake
67488	rake	impact melt breccia	crystalline impact melts
67489	rake
67495	rake
67510	rake	soil	noticeably coarser grain size and less mature compared with other lunar soils probably due to the fact that NRC is only 50 m.y. old
67511	rake
67512	rake
67513	rake
67514	rake
67515	rake	breccia	friable, chalky white rock containing lithic fragments of cataclastic anorthosite and feldspathic granulite
67516	rake	breccia	friable, chalky white rock containing lithic fragments of cataclastic anorthosite and feldspathic granulite
67517	rake	breccia	friable, chalky white rock containing lithic fragments of cataclastic anorthosite and feldspathic granulite
67518	rake	breccia	friable, chalky white rock containing lithic fragments of cataclastic anorthosite and feldspathic granulite
67519	rake	breccia	friable, chalky white rock containing lithic fragments of cataclastic anorthosite and feldspathic granulite
67520	rake
67521	rake
67522	rake
67523	rake
67524	rake
67525	rake
67526	rake
67527	rake
67528	rake
67529	rake		cataclastic anorthosite
67530	rake
67531	rake
67532	rake
67533	rake
67534	rake
67535	rake
67536	rake
67537	rake
67538	rake
67539	rake
67540	rake
67541	rake
67542	rake
67543	rake
67544	rake
67545	rake		contains unusual clasts, some with abundant melt, some with abundant Fe-rich olivine and ferro-augite; zap pits on the outer surfaces
67546	rake	breccia	porous and rounded with a light matrix and both light and dark clasts.
67547	rake
67548	rake
67549	rake	breccia	porous and rounded with a light matrix and both light and dark clasts
67550	rake
67551	rake
67552	rake
67553	rake
67554	rake
67555	rake
67556	rake	breccia	a friable micropoikilitic impact melt with intrusive glass veins. It has a micrometeorite crater.
67557	rake
67558	rake
67559	rake	basalt	igneous texture indicating that it cooled from a liquid, albeit, highly aluminous. It contains a trace of Ni, Ir and Au and has been dated at 3.76 ± 0.04 b.y., which makes it a critical sample.
67560	rake
67561	rake
67562	rake
67563	rake
67564	rake
67565	rake	breccia	micropoikitiic texture with interlocking oikocrysts of pyroxene surrounding chadocrysts of plagioclase. Ilmenite is concentrated at the boundaries of the pyroxene oikocysts.
67566	rake	breccia	glass-laden fragments; Ryder and Norman (1980) reported that 67566 had a "granoblastic" texture. The protolith was clearly a breccia.
67567	rake	breccia	glass-laden fragments
67568	rake	breccia	glass-laden fragments
67569	rake	breccia	glass-laden fragments
67570	rake
67571	rake
67572	rake
67573	rake
67574	rake
67575	rake
67576	rake
67600	rake	soil	The soil is probably derived from North Ray crater ejecta
67601	rake	soil
67602	rake	soil
67603	rake	soil
67604	rake	soil
67605	rake	breccia	relatively large friable, white particle about the size, shape and color of a golf ball
67610	rake	soil	coarse-fine particles
67611	rake
67612	rake
67613	rake
67614	rake
67615	rake	breccia	has olivine as the main mafic mineral and it may have a high proportion of opaque phases, is rounded and has zap pits on all sides
67616	rake
67617	rake	breccia	moderately coherent impact melt breccia with zap pits on one surface
67618	rake
67619	rake
67620	rake
67621	rake
67622	rake
67623	rake
67624	rake
67625	rake
67626	rake	breccia	"partly devitrified glass bomb"
67627	rake	breccia	glass-cemented aggregates
67628	rake	breccia	"glass bomb"
67629	rake	breccia	glass-cemented aggregates
67630	rake
67631	rake
67632	rake
67633	rake
67634	rake
67635	rake		relatively unshocked ferroan anorthosite, but have not been dated; angular, chalky white, very homogeneous sample with very finely granular sugary texture
67636	rake		Warren and Wasson (1980) describe 67635, 67636 and 67637 as mildly-shocked "monomict breccia, perhaps slightly less cataclastic than is typical for ferroan anorthosite".
67637	rake		subrounded, chalky-white, homogeneous sample with apparent cataclastic texture and appears to be a piece of 67635.
67638	rake
67639	rake
67640	rake
67641	rake
67642	rake
67643	rake
67644	rake
67645	rake
67646	rake
67647	rake	breccia	relatively coherent with lots of zap pits and has glass clasts, and glass in the matrix
67648	rake
67649	rake
67650	rake
67651	rake
67652	rake
67653	rake
67654	rake
67655	rake
67656	rake
67657	rake
67658	rake
67659	rake
67660	rake
67661	rake
67662	rake
67663	rake
67664	rake
67665	rake
67666	rake
67667	rake		is coherent and has a few micrometeorite craters on the surface, found to be chemically "pristine" and to have an old age (4.2 b.y.).
67668	rake	breccia	has a micropoikitiic texture with interlocking oikocrysts of pyroxene surrounding chadocrysts of plagioclase
67669	rake
67670	rake
67671	rake
67672	rake
67673	rake
67674	rake
67675	rake
67676	rake
67685		breccia	67628 was renumbered by Ryder and Norman (1980) when they made the catalog. It is a collection of four "glass bombs" that were collected as rake samples from just inside the rim of North Ray Crater. 67628 was originally cataloged as 4 glass particles, but Ryder and Norman (1980) treated them as separate particles - so they were renumbered.
67686		breccia	67628 was renumbered by Ryder and Norman (1980) when they made the catalog. It is a collection of four "glass bombs" that were collected as rake samples from just inside the rim of North Ray Crater. 67628 was originally cataloged as 4 glass particles, but Ryder and Norman (1980) treated them as separate particles - so they were renumbered.
67687		breccia	67628 was renumbered by Ryder and Norman (1980) when they made the catalog. It is a collection of four "glass bombs" that were collected as rake samples from just inside the rim of North Ray Crater. 67628 was originally cataloged as 4 glass particles, but Ryder and Norman (1980) treated them as separate particles - so they were renumbered.
67688		breccia	67628 was renumbered by Ryder and Norman (1980) when they made the catalog. It is a collection of four "glass bombs" that were collected as rake samples from just inside the rim of North Ray Crater. 67628 was originally cataloged as 4 glass particles, but Ryder and Norman (1980) treated them as separate particles - so they were renumbered.
67695		breccia	Borchardt et al. (1985) and Stoffler et al. (1985) studied glass particles from North Ray Crater and labeled these particles "glass bombs". 67629 was originally 4 pieces, which have since been relabeled 67629, 67695, 67696 and 67697
67696		breccia	Borchardt et al. (1985) and Stoffler et al. (1985) studied glass particles from North Ray Crater and labeled these particles "glass bombs". 67629 was originally 4 pieces, which have since been relabeled 67629, 67695, 67696 and 67697
67697		breccia	Borchardt et al. (1985) and Stoffler et al. (1985) studied glass particles from North Ray Crater and labeled these particles "glass bombs". 67629 was originally 4 pieces, which have since been relabeled 67629, 67695, 67696 and 67697
67700	rake	soil	The soil samples from station 11 at North Ray Crater have noticeably coarser grain size and are less mature compared with other lunar soils probably due to the fact that NRC is only 50 m.y. old (Arvidson et al. 1975).
67701	rake	soil
67702	rake	soil
67703	rake	soil
67704	rake	soil
67705	rake	soil
67706	rake	soil
67707	rake	soil
67708	rake	soil
67710	rake	soil	coarse-fine particles
67711	rake
67712	rake	soil
67713	rake	soil
67714	rake	soil
67715	rake	breccia	coherent, fine-grained impact melt rock
67716	rake	breccia	coherent, fine-grained impact melt rock; reported to have pink spinel as a large clast and is probably more aluminous
67717	rake
67718	rake	breccia	abundant clasts of plagioclase set in an aphanitic matrix
67719	rake	breccia	abundant clasts of plagioclase set in an aphanitic matrix
67720	rake
67721	rake
67722	rake
67723	rake
67724	rake
67725	rake
67726	rake
67727	rake
67728	rake	breccia	glass (?) particles with zaps
67729	rake	breccia	vesicular glass breccia with significant clasts, and has the appearance of a "glass bomb". It has zap pits on all sides.
67730	rake
67731	rake
67732	rake
67733	rake
67734	rake
67735	rake
67736	rake	breccia	It has zap pits; Stoffler et al. (1981) describe the matrix as "micropoikilitic". Photos of the exterior show what appears to be pink spinel (?) grains (not confirmed).
67737	rake
67738	rake
67739	rake	breccia	has a brown color, probably due to glass with abundant plagioclase (An98-90) and plagioclase-rich clasts.
67740	rake
67741	rake
67742	rake
67743	rake
67744	rake
67745	rake
67746	rake		plagioclase with a granuliticpoikilitic texture, Large pyroxene grains completely surround rounded olivine and plagioclase with Ilmenite and metallic Ni-Fe grains found between pyroxene oikocrysts.
67747	rake	basalt	small aluminous basalt with measured age of 3.86 b.y. Elongate plagioclase and pyroxene laths are poikilitically enclosed in large olivine. Glassy mesostasis is found adjacent to pyroxene.
67748	rake
67749	rake	granulite or granulite breccia	Granulitic Breccia with clast of KREEP basalt
67750	rake
67751	rake
67752	rake
67753	rake
67754	rake
67755	rake
67756	rake	breccia	small chalky white particle, plagioclase rich breccia, with minerals that seem to have equilibrated - hence it is called "recrystallized".
67757	rake	breccia	impact melt with fine-grained subophitic and poikilitic textures, with glass veins
67758	rake
67759	rake	breccia	impact melt with fine-grained subophitic and poikilitic textures, with glass veins
67760	rake
67761	rake
67762	rake
67763	rake
67764	rake
67765	rake
67766	rake	breccia	a coherent, plagioclase-rich breccia with a granular matrix. It has a measured age of 3.82 b.y.
67767	rake
67768	rake
67769	rake	impact melt breccia	has a micropoikilitic texture indicating that it is an impact melt breccia
67770	rake
67771	rake
67772	rake
67773	rake
67774	rake
67775	rake	breccia	has a KREEP like rare-earth-element pattern with micrometerorite craters. Reimold et al. (1985) noted it was rather unique among Apollo 16 samples in being the only sample with intergranular texture and containing a high amount of mafic mineral clasts.
67776	rake
67910
67915	rock	breccia	composed of white and grey breccias; both are polymict (Taylor and Mosie 1979), cemented by shock-melted glass and is also cut with thin black glass veins.
67930
67935	rock	basalt	thin veins of black glass, texture of fine-grained subophitic basalt
67936	rock	basalt	thin veins of black glass, texture of fine-grained subophitic basalt
67937	rock	basalt	thin veins of black glass, texture of fine-grained subophitic basalt
67940		breccia	shielded soil from E-W split in House Rock
67941		soil	immature soils from the rim of fresh North Ray Crater. House Rock and other samples of North Ray Crater are breccias
67942
67943
67944
67945		breccia	micropoikilitic impact breccia
67946		breccia	are glass (?) particles with zaps
67947		breccia	a "walnut" from soil 67941; Granulitic Breccia
67948		basalt	plagioclase-rich, ophitic basalt with igneous texture
67950
67955	rock	breccia	exterior surface has a thin brown patina with micrometeorite pits; has been dated at 4.2 b.y. with exposure to cosmic rays for ~ 50 m.y. (age of North Ray Crater).
67956
67957
67960
67975	rock	fragmental breccia	Irregularly shaped rock with approximately equal amounts of pale gray, fragmental, friable breccia and a coating of frothy, clast-rich glass.
67976
68001	core		very coarse grained; speculated that "the top of this zone may represent a buried topographic surface". However, this study was based on an interpretation of the Xradiograph, and was not confirmed by the study of the core after extrusion. Schwarz (1994) described the samples during dissection.
68002	core
68030
68035	rake		glass-coated white anorthosite with a blue-green sheen
68110
68115		breccia	heterogeneous breccia which is welded together by flow-banded glass; appears to be an orange stain on the surface; unusual area of very vesicular melt on one end
68120		soil
68121		soil
68122		soil
68123		soil
68124		soil
68410
68415		impact melt breccia	68415 and 68416 have an igneous has an intersertal texture characterized by a "fret work" of plagioclase laths with interstitial olivine and pyroxene and minor occurances of opaques, phosphates, residual glass and other minerals; is 3.76 b.y.
68416		impact melt breccia	has an igneous has an intersertal texture characterized by a "fret work" of plagioclase laths with interstitial olivine and pyroxene and minor occurances of opaques, phosphates, residual glass and other minerals
68500		soil	Soil 68500 accompanied rake sample 68510 at Station 8, on the north rim of a 10-15 meter crater in the vicinity of visible rays from South Ray crater. Astronauts reported several glass fragments scattered over the surface in this area, some reflecting red and green in the sunlight. The sample area is generally free of large rocks.
68501	rake	soil
68502	rake
68503	rake
68504	rake
68505	rake
68510	rake
68511	rake
68512	rake
68513	rake
68514	rake
68515	rake		Steele and Smith (1973) refer to it as a "complex, black and white breccia with some devitrified glass".
68516	rake	breccia	mix of dark glass and grey impact melt clasts; age has been determined - 3.8 b.y.
68517	rake
68518	rake	breccia	described as a "cinder" by Smith and Steele (1972). Ryder and Norman (1980) noted that it may be a glass coated lithic fragment, but it has never been subdivided or studied.
68519	rake	breccia	small lithic fragment had a glass coat that has been partially chipped away by micrometeorite bombardment.
68520	rake
68521	rake
68522	rake
68523	rake
68524	rake
68525	rake	breccia	appears to be impact melt breccia, with poikilitic texture, but have not been studied.
68526	rake	breccia	appears to be impact melt breccia, with poikilitic texture, but have not been studied.
68527	rake	breccia	appears to be impact melt breccia, with poikilitic texture, but have not been studied.
68528	rake
68529	rake
68530	rake
68531	rake
68532	rake
68533	rake
68534	rake
68535	rake	breccia	impact melt fragments cemented by a black glass
68536	rake	breccia	impact melt fragments cemented by a black glass
68537	rake
68815	rock	breccia	outer surface covered with zap pits; the broken surface contains large vugs and vesicles. 68815 is one of the samples that date the age of South Ray Crater (Drozd et al. 1974; Pepin et al. 1974) and is said to have had a simple exposure history.
68820
68821		soil	mature soil and should be compared with sample 68841, collected nearby.
68822
68823
68824
68825
68840		soil
68841		soil	coarse fine
68842
68843
68844
68845		breccia	coherent, grey, aphanitic rocks
68846		breccia	coherent, grey, aphanitic rocks
68847		breccia	coherent, grey, aphanitic rocks
68848
69001		soil	Drive Tube is unopened and has been in vacuum since it was sealed in CSVC on the moon.
69003
69004
69920	rake	soil	mature soil
69921
69922
69923
69924
69930
69935		breccia	apparently a polymict breccia that is texturally inhomogeneous and has a large white clast
69940		soil	69940 is a "scoop" sample from several cm below the surface. Large fragments are relatively sparse at the sample site, surface is relatively firm, craters 5-30 cm are common but larger ones are sparse.
69941
69942
69943
69944
69945		breccia	appears to be more mafic than most poikilitic Apollo 16 breccias and has only minor clasts
69950
69955	rock	anorthite	a rock that is relatively coarse-grained, shocked cataclastic anorthosite with a flat black glass vein running the length
69960		soil	69960 was collected at Station 9 from under a .5 meter boulder after it had been rolled over. It is part of a "surface sampler" including soils 69920, 69940, and 69960 and fragments 69003, 69004, and 66935. Large fragments are relatively sparse at the sample site, surface is relatively firm, craters 5-30 cm are common but larger ones are sparse.
69961		soil
69962		soil
69963		soil
69964		soil
69965		soil
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Sample Number	Sample Type	Lithology	Description
17508
70001	core
70002	core
70003	core
70004	core
70005	core
70006	core
70007		soil
70008	core	soil	70001-70009 are the segments of the deep core drilled at the ALSEP site 180 meters west of the LM. The sample area is flat, level and has 2-3% block cover. Craters 10 cm to 1 meter in size are common, fines are coherent below 3-4 cm. Drill penetration to 3.2 meters alternated between easy and difficult. The bottom 20 cm were very difficult to drill. The base material is cohesive, fragmental.
70009	core	soil
70017	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70018	rock	breccia	Clastic Matrix Breccia; no research has been conducted upon this sample
70019	rock	breccia	Soil Breccia - Agglutinate
70035	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70075	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70130
70131
70132
70133
70134
70135	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt,
70136	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70137	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70138	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70139	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70140
70141
70142
70143
70144
70145	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70146	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70147	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	Clast-Rich Impact Melt
70148	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70149	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70150
70151
70152
70153
70154
70155	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70156	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70157	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70160		soil	This is a fillet soil near the ALSEP central station, 180 meters west of the LM, at the base of a 1.5 meter boulder. Sample area has about 2-5% rock cover. Fines are darker when disturbed and compaction is greater in the fillet.
70161	soil <1 mm	soil
70165	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70170
70175	rock	breccia	Glass-Rich Microbreccia
70180		soil	This surface soil was collected 3 meters from the deep core site on the rim of an 8 meter blocky crater at the ALSEP. The sample area is flat and level with 2-3% block cover. Craters 10 cm to 1 meter in size are common, the fines are rather loose at the sample site on the rim of a .5 meter crater. This soil was collected with 70185, an 8 cm vuggy basalt.
70181
70182
70183
70184
70185	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70215	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70250
70255	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70270
70275	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70295	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
70310
70311
70312
70313
70314
70315	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
70320
70321
70322
70323
70324
71030
71031
71032
71033
71034
71035	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71036	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71037	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71040		soil	71040 is a surface soil that was collected along with 6 chips in the shadow of "tombstone rock" at Station 1A. Soil 71060 was collected at the same site at a depth of 5-6 cm. Tombstone Rock is on the inner side of the southwest rim of a 10 meter blocky crater. The sample area is broadly rolling and dominated by ejecta. Local craters up to 2 meters in size are common, and the fines are fairly compact.
71041
71042
71043
71044
71045	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71046	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71047	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71048	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71049	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71050
71055	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71060		soil	71060 is a soil sample collected 5-6 cm below the surface in the shadow of "tombstone rock" at Station 1A. It was collected with 13 chips. Tombstone Rock is on the inner side of the southwest rim of a 10 meter blocky crater. The sample area is broadly rolling and dominated by ejecta. Local craters up to 2 meters in size are common, and the fines are faily compact.
71061
71062
71063
71064
71065	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71066	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71067	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71068	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71069	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71075	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71085	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71086	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71087	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71088	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71089
71090
71091
71092
71093
71094
71095	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71096	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71097	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71130
71131	soil <1 mm
71135	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71136	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71150
71155	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71156	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71157	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71170
71175	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71500		soil	Soil 71500 and 6 rock fragments were collected at Station 1A 15 meters northeast of the rim of a blocky 10 meter crater. It was collected as the reference to rake sample 71520 - 71597. The sample area is flat and essentially free of large fragments. The fines are fairly compact, there are 3 .5 meter craters in the sample area. The soil is scooped from the edge of a subdued crater in an area mostly free of surface rocks and small craters.
71501
71502
71503
71504
71505	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71506	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71507	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71508	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71509	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71515	rock	other	Glass-Bonded Agglutinate
71520
71521
71522
71523
71524
71525	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71526	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71527	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71528	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
71529
71530
71531
71532
71533
71534
71535
71536		basalt
71537		basalt
71538
71539		basalt
71540
71541
71542
71543
71544
71545
71546		basalt
71547
71548		basalt
71549		basalt
71550
71551
71552
71553
71554
71555		basalt
71556		basalt
71557	rock	high-Ti mare basalt
71558
71559		basalt
71560
71561
71562
71563
71564
71565		basalt
71566		basalt
71567		basalt
71568		basalt
71569		basalt
71570
71571
71572
71573
71574
71575
71576		basalt
71577		basalt
71578		basalt
71579
71580
71581
71582
71583
71584
71585
71586		basalt
71587		basalt
71588		basalt
71589
71590
71591
71592
71593
71594
71595		basalt
71596	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	high-Ti mare basalt
71597
72130
72131
72132
72133
72134
72135	rock	breccia	Microbreccia
72140		soil	This soil was collected during the LRV traverse between Station 1 and 2 on the "prong" or very faint extension of the white mantle of a crater rim. The sample area is undulating, and fragments greater than 10 cm are rare. The ground surface is patterned in a "raindrop" texture. This sample is very cohesive.
72141	soil <1 mm
72145	rock	breccia	Polymict Microbreccia; original all remains; no subsamples have been prepared and no work has been conducted in this Catalog (Oct 1993)
72150		soil	This sample is document bag residue left in the bag which contained 72155, a 420 gm basalt. The basalt and the residue were collected during an LRV traverse on Tortilla flat between SEP and Station 2. The sample area is flat with sparse fragments. The sampling and handling procedures make this data very suspect.
72155	rock	basalt	Basalt
72160
72161
72162
72163
72164
72210
72215	rock	impact melt breccia	aphanitic impact melt breccia
72220
72221
72222
72223
72224
72230
72235	rock	impact melt breccia	aphanitic impact melt breccia, sample was given name "Dying Dog" during processing, contains plutonic KREEP norite
72240		soil	This soil was collected at Station 2, near the base of South Massif. The upper 4 cm of soil was collected from under a .7 meter breccia boulder which was rolled over by the crew. 72440 was from the upper 4 cm of the soil, and 72460 was a skim sample. The area was too disturbed after rolling the boulder over to compare well with the undisturbed fines, but generally it appears similar. The sample area is a strewn boulder field with loose fines.
72241
72242
72243
72244
72250
72255	rock	impact melt breccia	aphanitic impact melt breccia
72260
72261
72262
72263
72264
72270
72275	rock	breccia	fragmental polymict breccia,
72310
72315	rock	impact melt breccia	micropokilitic impact melt breccia
72320		soil	72320 was collected at Station 2, near the base of the South Massif. This "shadowed soil" collected about 20 cm under the east - west overhang of a 2 meter diameter boulder. The sample area is a strewn boulder field with boulders up to 2 meters across common. Craters up to 10 cm are abundant in the immediate sample area. The soil probably does not have as complex an exposure history as rake sample 72500 because of the protection from the rock overhang.
72321
72322
72323
72324
72330
72335	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic impact melt breccia
72350
72355	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic impact melt breccia
72370
72375	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic impact melt breccia
72390
72395	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic impact melt breccia
72410
72415	rock	dunite	Cataclastic dunite, homogeneous
72416	rock	dunite	Cataclastic Dunite, has never been dissected or allocated for study
72417	rock	dunite	Cataclastic Dunite, pale yellowish to greenish gray (5Y 8/1 to 5 GY 8/1)
72418	rock	dunite	Cataclastic Dunite, has never been dissected or allocated for study
72430
72431
72432
72433
72434
72435	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia, can be assumed to have formed during the Serenitatis event, has major and trace element chemistry similar to other Apollo 17 low-K Fra Mauro impacat melts
72440		soil	This soil was collected at Station 2, near the base of South Massif. The upper 4 cm of soil was collected from a .7 meter breccia boulder which was rolled over by the crew. 72440 was from the upper 4 cm of the soil, and 72460 was a skim sample. The area was too disturbed after rolling the boulder over to compare well with the undisturbed fines, but generally it appears similar. The sample area is a strewn boulder field with loose fines.
72441
72442
72443
72444
72460		soil	72460 was collected at Station 2, near the base of South Massif. It was a skim sample which was collected from under a .7 meter breccia boulder which was rolled over by the crew. 72440 was from the upper 4 cm of the soil, and 72460 was a skim sample. The area was too disturbed after rolling the boulder over to compare well with the undisturbed fines, but generally it appears similar. The sample area is a strewn boulder field with loose fines.
72461
72462
72463
72464
72500		soil	Soil 72500 and rake sample 72530-72559 were collected at Station 2 near the base of South Massif a few meters from the rim of Nansen crater. Boulders up to 2 meters are common in the general area, but fragments larger than 25 cm are sparse in the raked area. The soil was sampled to a depth of 4 cm.
72501
72502
72503
72504
72505	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?)
72530
72531
72532
72533
72534
72535	rock	impact melt breccia	Microsubophitic Impact Melt Breccia, its chemistry is similar to the common low-K Fra Mauro melts that dominate the Apollo 17 highlands samples
72536	rock	impact melt breccia	Microsubophitic Impact Melt Breccia, its chemistry is imilar to the common low-K Fra Mauro melts that dominate the Apollo 17 highlands samples
72537	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), identification is uncertain because it has never been allocated or dissected
72538	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), identification is uncertain because it has never been allocated or dissected
72539	rock	breccia	Microsubophitic Impact Melt Breccia (?), its chemistry is similar to te common low-K Fra Mauro melts that dominate the Apollo 17 highlands samples
72540
72541
72542
72543
72544
72545	rock	breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), sample has never been allocated or dissected
72546	rock	breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), sample has never been allocated or dissected
72547	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), sample has never been allocated or dissected
72548	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia, its chemistry is similar to the common low-K Fra Mauro melts that dominate the Apollo 17 highlands samples
72549	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia, chemistry is similar to the common low-K Fra Mauro melts that dominate the Apollo 17 highlands samples
72550
72551
72552
72553
72554
72555	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), has never been allocated or dissected
72556	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), has never been allocated or dissected
72557	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), has never been dissected or allocated
72558	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
72559	rock	other	Granoblastic Impactite
72700		soil	Soil 72700 and rake samples 72735-38 were collected at Station 2 in a light mantle unit near the base of South Massif slightly upslope from Nansen crater. The area has an undulating slope towards the southeast, fragments up to 3 cm are sparsely distributed in the rake area, and craters up to 5 meters are common in the general area. The sample was collected to a depth of 5 cm.
72701
72702
72703
72704
72705	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
72730
72735	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (High-K)
72736	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia, chemistry is similar to the common low-K Fra Mauro melts that dominate the Apollo 17 highlands samples,
72737	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?)
72738	rock	impact melt breccia	Microsubophitic Impact Melt Breccia
73001
73002
73120		soil	Surface sample 73120 was collected near trench sample 73140 at Station 2A, about 750 meters north-northeast of Station 2 at the base of South Massif on the light mantle deposits. The site is generally level, with fragments >5cm sparse and craters >10 cm sparse.
73124
73130
73131
73132
73134
73140		soil	This is a trench sample collected to a depth of 15 cm near surface sample 73120 at Station 2A, about 750 meters north-northeast of Station 2 at the base of South Massif on the light mantle deposits. The site is generally level, with fragments >5cm sparse and craters >10 cm sparse.
73141
73142
73143
73144
73145	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), medium dark gray (N4), homogeneous
73146	rock	anorthite	Cataclastic Troctolitic Anorthosite, very light gray (N8), homogenous
73150
73151
73153
73154
73155	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia, medium dark gray (N4) in color, rather heterogeneous
73156	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia or Granoblastic Impactite, light gray and homogeneous
73210
73211
73212
73213
73214
73215	rock	impact melt breccia	Aphanitic Impact Melt Breccia, polymict breccia,
73216	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia, tan to olive gray (5Y 5/1)
73217	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia, bulk groundmass may be the low-K Fra Mauro basalt composition common at the Apollo 17 landing site,
73218	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia, greenish-gray gray (5GY 6/1) angular breccia; its chemical composition might be similar to the common low-K Fra Mauro basalt impact melts common at the site, originally described as anorthositic.
73219	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt, medium dark gray (N4), the only mare basalt as an individual rock fragment from the South Massif or landslide
73220		soil	This is a skim sample from the top 1 cm of trench (73240 is from the bottom). The trench is on the rim of a 10 meter crater in light mantle deposits at Station 3. The site slopes 7 degrees to the east, 1-10 cm fragments are common and >10 cm fragments are sparse.
73221
73222
73223
73224
73225	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia (?), light gray (N5), contains plagioclases, possibly a ranoblastic impactite
73230
73235	rock	impact melt breccia	Aphanitic Impact Melt Brecia, medium light gray (N6) with mottling
73240		soil	This is a trench sample from the upper part of a 15 cm deep trench containing a medium gray surface layer and a 3 cm light gray layer just below the surface. It was collected at Station 3 with skim sample 73220 on the rim of a 10 meter crater in the light mantle. The site slopes 7 degrees to the east, 1-10 cm fragments are common and >10 cm fragments are sparse.
73241
73242
73243
73244
73245	rock	other	Granoblastic Impactite (?); medium gray (N6), probably feldspathic granulite with a little adhering light brownish gray regolith breccia
73250
73255	rock	impact melt breccia	Aphanitic Impact Melt Breccia, essentally an agglomeritic bomb with abundant clasts
73260		soil	This is a trench sample from part of the "marbled zone" 5-10 cm below the surface. It may also include some material from the small patch of light material visible in the pre-sampling photographs. It was collected at Station 3 with skim sample 73220 on the rim of a 10 meter crater in the light mantle. The site slopes 7 degrees to the east, 1-10 cm fragments are common and >10 cm fragments are sparse.
73261
73262
73263
73264
73270
73275	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia, lclast-bearing, with chemical composition similar to the low-K Fra Mauro melts common at the site and generally presumed to represent the Serentatis impact melt, is light gray in color..
73280		soil	This is a trench sample from about 5-10 cm below the surface. It appears to be similar to the light gray material just below the surface. It was collected at Station 3 with skim sample 73220 on the rim of a 10 meter crater in the light mantle. The site slopes 7 degrees to the east, 1-10 cm fragments are common and >10 cm fragments are sparse.
73281
73282
73283
73284
73285	rock	breccia	Glass-Coated Polymict Breccia, medium light gray (N6),
74001	core	soil	Drive tube 74001/74002 was collected at the south rim of 120 meter Shorty crater, at Station 4. The cored material is unusually compact. The core contains orange and red colored soil with nearly vertical contacts. The site is near the low place in the crater rim crest. The fragment population is viable. Craters up to several meters in diameter are scattered near the sample site. The core is almost entirely without coarse fines.
74002	core	soil	Drive tube 74001/74002 was collected at the south rim of 120 meter Shorty crater, at Station 4. The cored material is unusually compact. The core contains orange and red colored soil with nearly vertical contacts. The site is near the low place in the crater rim crest. The fragment population is viable. Craters up to several meters in diameter are scattered near the sample site. The core is almost entirely without coarse fines.
74110
74111
74112
74113
74114
74115	rock	regolith breccia	Friable Regolith Breccia, light gray polymict breccia
74116	rock	regolith breccia	Friable Regolith Breccia, light gray polymict breccia
74117	rock	regolith breccia	Friable Regolith Breccia, light gray polymict breccia
74118	rock	regolith breccia	Friable Regolith Breccia, light gray polymict breccia
74119	rock	regolith breccia	Friable Regolith Breccia, light gray polymict breccia
74120		soil	This surface soil was collected from the LRV while traversing over light mantle deposits between Stations 3 and 4. The site is undulating, yet regionally level with fragments >10 cm sparse. Craters <1 meter are abundant, but craters >1 meter are sparse.
74124
74220		soil	Considered to be a clod of friable material taken 6-8 cm deep in a trench from Station 4, on the rim of 120 meter Shorty crater. The site is near the low place in the crater rim crest. The fragments population is highly variable, craters up to several meters in diameter are common. The particles larger than 1 mm are mostly friable clumps that disagregated during sieving. Any discontinuity is probably due to the fact that the sizes <1 mm were sieved and the sizes >1 mm were hand picked.
74221
74222
74223
74224
74235	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
74240		soil	This is gray soil that was bordering the meter wide band of reddish soil (74240 is southwest of the colored soil and 74260 is to the northeast) at Station 4 on the rim of Shorty crater. The site is near the low place in the crater rim crest. The fragment population is highly variable, and craters up to several meters in diameter are common.
74245	rock	basalt	Aphanitic High-Ti Basalt
74246	rock	breccia	Soil Breccia
74247	rock	basalt	High-Ti Basalt
74248	rock	basalt	High-Ti Basalt
74249	rock	basalt	High-Ti Basalt
74250
74255	rock	basalt	High-Ti Basalt
74260		soil	This is gray soil that was bordering the meter wide band of reddish soil (74240 is southwest of the colored soil and 74260 is to the northeast) at Station 4 on the rim of Shorty crater. The site is near the low place in the crater rim crest. The fragment population is highly variable, and craters up to several meters in diameter are common.
74275	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
74285	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
74286	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
74287	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-It Mare Basalt
75010
75015	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75030
75035	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75050
75055	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75060		soil	This is a mantling soil that was collected from a 1 cm depression on a 3 meter boulder, at Station 5, the southwest rim of Camelot crater. The site has an undulating slope with cobbles and boulders covering 30% of the surface. The soil contains two rock chips, 75065-66.
75061
75062
75063
75064
75065	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75066	rock	breccia	Glassy Breccia
75070
75075	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75080		soil	This is a surface soil sample from a site on the regolith surface a few meters from sample 75060 at Station 5 on the southwest rim of Camelot crater. The sample area is undulating with cobbles and boulders covering 30% of the surface.
75081
75082
75083
75084
75085	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75086	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75087	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75088	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75089	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
75110		soil	This sample was collected during LRV traverse #7, from the apex of Victory crater on the inner slope of the crater rim. The site has pebbles to 1 meter size boulders covering 2-3% of the surface. The fragments appear to be randomly scattered, but there is a slight concentration on the rims of small craters.
75111
75112
75113
75114
75115	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	Light olive gray subrounded, fine-grained basalt, with an equigranular fabric and several penetrative fractures.
75120
75121
75122
75123
75196
75210		soil	This soil was collected during LRV traverse #8, between Victory and Horatio craters in an area of dark mantle between the small craters. The area is flat with scattered craters less than 5 meters in diameter. Clods <10 cm are found on the rims of fresh craters. "Raindrops" are present on the surface of the sample area.
75224
75701	rake
76001
76015	rock	impact melt breccia	Vesicular Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia; chipped off top corner of Block 5 of big boulder at Station 6; summarized by Spudis/Ryder (1981) that boulder is from the melt sheet or ejecta blanket from the Serenitatus impact event
76035	rock	impact melt breccia	Nonvesicular Impact Melt Breccia
76036	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia; sample has not been studied at time of this Catalog (Aug 1994) but is apparently similar to and probably piece of 76035.
76037	soil-general	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
76055	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia; appears to be older than Station 6 Boulder and other Serenitatus impact melts; may be a separate sample of Serenitatus melt sheet from high on North Massif.
76120
76121
76122
76123
76124
76130
76131
76132
76133
76134
76135	rake	impact melt breccia	Vesicular Poikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76136	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
76137	rock	impact melt breccia	Poikilitic Impacat Melt Breccia; sample has not been studied at time of this Catalog (Aug 1994)
76210
76215	rock	impact melt breccia	Vesicular Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76230
76235	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactite; may have broken further in sample bag including samples 76230, 76235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 305, 306 and 307 (Heiken et al., 1973; Phinney, 1981)
76236	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactite; part of 76235
76237	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactite, part of 76235
76238	rake	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactite; part of 76235.
76239	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactite; part of 76235
76240
76241
76242
76243
76244
76245		impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
76246		impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
76250
76255	rock	impact melt breccia	Banded Impact Melt Breccia; has large clast of crushed norite
76260		soil	This surface soil was collected at Station 6 on the south slope of the North Massif. It has a large boulder nearby which casts a permanent shadow on 76240: 76260 and 76280 are just outside the limit of the overhang. 76260 is a 2 cm skim and 76280 is a 5 cm scoop. The area slopes 11 degrees to the south with scattered fragments <6cm.
76261
76262
76263
76264
76265	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
76270
76275	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia; sample has not been well studied (Aug 1994)
76280		soil	This surface soil was collected at Station 6 on the south slope of the North Massif. It has a large boulder nearby which casts a permanent shadow on 76240: 76260 and 76280 are just outside the limit of the overhang. 76260 is a 2 cm skim and 76280 is a 5 cm scoop. The area slopes 11 degrees to the south with scattered fragments <6cm.
76281
76282
76283
76284
76285	rock	breccia	Agglutinate of Dark Matrix Breccia Fragments; soil in area was collected as comparison with 76245, which was permanently shadowed.
76286	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
76290
76295	rock	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
76305	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactites, part of 76235
76306	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactites, part of 76235
76307	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactites, part of 76235
76310
76315	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76320		soil	Surface soil collected at Station 6 on flat face of boulder 1. The site slopes 10 degrees to the north with fragments up to 5 cm scattered about. A few 5-10 cm crataers are found in the area.
76335	rock	troctolite	Cataclastic Troctolite
76500		soil	Reference soil 76500 and rake soil 76530-76577 were collected at Station 6, 25 meters west of the boulder cluster on the ejecta blanket of a 10 meter crater. The site slopes 11 degrees to the south with 1-10 cm fragments scattered randomly. One large 10 meter crater and many <30 cm craters are found at the site.
76501
76502
76503
76504
76505		impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76506		regolith breccia	Dark Matrix Regolith Breccia
76530
76535	rake	troctolite	Troctolite, random sample as part of rake sample at Station 6
76536	rake	troctolite	Crushed Troctolite
76537	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
76538	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
76539	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	Aphanitic High-Ti Mare Basalt
76540
76541
76542
76543
76544
76545	rake	regolith breccia	Dark Matrix Regolith Breccia
76546
76547
76548	rake	regolith breccia	Dark Matrix Regolith Breccia
76549
76550
76551
76552
76553
76554
76555	rake	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76556	rake	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76557	rake	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76558	rake	impact melt breccia	Imact Melt Breccia
76559	rake	impact melt breccia	Poikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76560
76561
76562
76563
76564
76565	rake	regolith breccia	Dark Matrix Regolith Breccia
76566	rake	regolith breccia	Dark Matrix Regolith Breccia
76567	rake	regolith breccia	Light Matrix Regolith Breccia
76568	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	Aphanitic High-Ti Mare Basalt
76569	rake	impact melt breccia	Aphanitic Impact Melt Breccia
76570
76571
76572
76573
76574
76575	rake	impact melt breccia	Feldspathic Impact Melt Breccia
76576	rake	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
76577	rake	impact melt breccia	Poikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
77017	rock	other	Poikilitic Anorthsitic Gabbo, annealed, feldspathic breccia
77035	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
77070
77075	rock	norite	Impact Melt Dike in Cataclastic Norite
77076
77077	rock	norite	Cataclastic Norite with Black Veinlets
77110
77115	rock	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
77130
77135	rock	impact melt breccia	Vesicular Poikilitic Impact Melt Rock
77215	rock	norite	Cataclastic Norite (41 or more pieces)
77510
77511
77512
77513
77514
77515	rake	impact melt breccia	Poikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
77516	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
77517	rake	breccia	Unique Fragmental Breccia; sample 77517 is exotic to Apollo 17 site, contining mineral fragments of pink aluminous spinel, aluminous enstatite, and forsterite.
77518	rake	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
77519	rake	impact melt breccia	Micropoikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
77525	rake	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
77526	rake	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
77535	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
77536	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
77537	rake	impact melt breccia	Impact Melt Breccia
77538	rake	breccia	Unusual Fragmental Breccia
77539	rake	impact melt breccia	Poikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
77545	rake	impact melt breccia	Poikilitic Impact Melt Breccia
78120
78121
78122
78123
78124
78130
78135	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78150
78155	rock	other	Feldspathic Granulitic Impactite; sample itself may have been projectile that made "pit crater"; may be exotic to site;
78220		soil	Soil collected from beneath a .5 meter gabbroic boulder at Station 8, near the base of Sculptured Hills, south of Wessex Cleft. The site slopes moderately steeply to the southwest, with scattered pebbles, clods, small rocks and one boulder. The surface is saturated with 1 cm craters, larger craters are present but not abundant.
78221
78222
78223
78224
78230
78231
78232
78233
78234
78235	rock	norite	Shocked Norite
78236	rock	norite	Shocked Norite, piece of norite 78235
78237
78238	rock	norite	Shocked Norite, piece from norite 78235
78250
78255	rock	norite	Shocked Norite
78420		soil	This is part of trench sequence at Station 8 at the base of Sculptured Hills south of Wessex Cleft. 78420 is at the bottom of a 25 cm trench, 78440 is at a depth of 6-15 cm, 78460 is at a depth of 1-6 cm, and 78480 is from the upper 1 cm. The site has a moderate slope to the southwest, a few pebbles and clods <5 cm are found, and the area is saturated with 1 cm craters. There are a few larger craters in the area.
78421
78422
78423
78424
78440
78441
78442
78443
78444
78460		soil	This is part of trench sequence at Station 8 at the base of Sculptured Hills south of Wessex Cleft. 78420 is at the bottom of a 25 cm trench, 78440 is at a depth of 6-15 cm, 78460 is at a depth of 1-6 cm, and 78480 is from the upper 1 cm. The site has a moderate slope to the southwest, a few pebbles and clods <5 cm are found, and the area is saturated with 1 m craters. There are a few larger craters in the area.
78461
78462
78463
78464
78465	rock	breccia	Soil Breccia
78480		soil	This is part of trench sequence at Station 8 at the base of Sculptured Hills south of Wessex Cleft. 78420 is at the bottom of a 25 cm trench, 78440 is at a depth of 6-15 cm, 78460 is at a depth of 1-6 cm, and 78480 is from the upper 1 cm. The site has a moderate slope to the southwest, a few pebbles and clods <5 cm are found, and the area is saturated with 1 cm craters. There are a few larger craters in the area.
78481
78482
78483
78484
78500		soil	This is a surface sample to accompany rake sample 78525-599, collected near the rim of a subdued 15 meter crater at the base of Sculptured Hills, south of Wessex Cleft. The site has a moderate slope to the southwest with scattered pebbles, clods, and small rocks.
78501
78502
78503
78504
78505		high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78506		high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78507		high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78508		breccia	Light Matrix Soil Breccia
78509		high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78510
78511
78512
78513
78514
78515		breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78516		breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78517		other	Friable White Cataclasite
78518		breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78525	rake	other	Agglutinate
78526	rake	green glass vitrophyres	Green Glass Vitrophyre
78527	rake	breccia	Granulitic Noritic Breccia
78528		basalt	Basalt
78530
78535	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78536	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78537	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78538	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78539	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78540
78541
78542
78543
78544
78545	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78546	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia
78547	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78548	rake	other	Soil Clod, friable soil breccia
78549	rake	other	Soil Clod, friable soil breccia
78550
78551
78552
78553
78554
78555	rake	breccia	Soil Breccia
78556	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78557	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78558	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78559	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78560
78561
78563
78564
78565	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78566	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78567	rake	breccia	Dark Matrix Soil Breccia
78568	rake	breccia	Breccia, coherent soil breccia
78569	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78570
78571
78572
78573
78574
78575	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78576	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78577	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78578	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78579	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78580
78581
78582
78583
78584
78585	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78586	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78587	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78588	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78589	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78590
78591
78592
78593
78594
78595	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78596	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78597	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78598	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
78599	rake	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
79001	core	soil	Double drive tube 79001/79002 was taken 2 meters from two 1 meter craters on the southeast flank of the Van Serg crater ejecta blanket, at Station 9. The site has a gentle slope to the southeast away from Van Serg crater. Fragments 2-20 cm cover 3% of the surface. Astronauts report that driving the first core was easy. The second one was a little tougher, and then it got very hard at the end. >1mm particles were hand picked and not sieved, where they would have broken down, so there is a discontinuity in the size distribution caused by the lab procesures.
79002	core	soil	Double drive tube 79001/79002 was taken 2 meters from two 1 meter craters on the southeast flank of the Van Serg crater ejecta blanket, at Station 9. The site has a gentle slope to the southeast away from Van Serg crater. Fragments 2-20 cm cover 3% of the surface. Astronauts report that driving the first core was easy. The second one was a little tougher, and then it got very hard at the end. >1mm particles were hand picked and not sieved, where they would have broken down, so there is a discontinuity in the size distribution caused by the lab procesures.
79035	rock	breccia	friable breccia
79110
79115	rock	breccia	Medium Gray Soil Breccia; described as a lumpy, generally fine-grained, friable basalt, with intense platy fracturing, particularly on the west face (Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Information Catalog, 1973)
79120
79121
79122
79123
79124
79125	rock	breccia	Microbreccia; As no work has been conducted on this sample, it is still intact as of this catalog (Oct 1993)
79130
79135	rock	breccia	Polymict Matrix Breccia
79155	rock	other	Partially Glass-Coated Gabbro
79170
79175	rock	regolith breccia	Glass-Bonded Agglutinate
79190
79195	rock	breccia	Breccia, friable, basalt
79215	rock	breccia	Metabreccia
79220		soil	79220 is part of a trench sequence (79220 depth 0-2cm, 79240 depth 2-7 cm, 79260 depth 7-17 cm) taken from the southwest flank of the Van Serg crater ejecta blanket near Station 9. The uppermost 7 cm of the trench is gray, below that is a light gray or white layer. The site has a gently southeast slope away from Van Serg crater. Fragments 2-20 cm cover 3% of the surface. Two fresh 1 meter craters are found near the trench.
79221
79222
79223
79224
79225	rock	breccia	Friable Microbreccia; As of this Catalog (Oct 1993), original sample remains intact; no work has been conducted.
79226	rock	breccia	Friable Microbreccia; as of this Catalog (Oct 1993), original sample remains intact; no work has been conducted.
79227		soil	Clod; after separation from the soil sample, this sample disaggregated to soil-like material and was not described
79228		soil	Clod; After separation from the soil sample, this sample disaggregated to soil-like material and was not described.
79240		soil	79220 is part of a trench sequence (79220 depth 0-2cm, 79240 depth 2-7 cm, 79260 depth 7-17 cm) taken from the southwest flank of the Van Serg crater ejecta blanket near Station 9. The uppermost 7 cm of the trench is gray, below that is a light gray or white layer. The site has a gently southeast slope away from Van Serg crater. Fragments 2-20 cm cover 3% of the surface. Two fresh 1 meter craters are found near the trench.
79241
79242
79243
79244
79245	rock	other	High Grade Metaclastic; The original sample remains intact at time of the Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted.
79260		soil	79220 is part of a trench sequence (79220 depth 0-2cm, 79240 depth 2-7 cm, 79260 depth 7-17 cm) taken from the southwest flank of the Van Serg crater ejecta blanket near Station 9. The uppermost 7 cm of the trench is gray, below that is a light gray or white layer. The site has a gently southeast slope away from Van Serg crater. Fragments 2-20 cm cover 3% of the surface. Two fresh 1 meter craters are found near the trench.
79261
79262
79263
79264
79265	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
79510		soil	This surface sample was collected 2 meters east of the large boulder where 79120 was collected. Both samples were taken from the southeast rim of Van Serg crater, Station 9. There is no slope at the rim crest, fragments 2-30 cm cover 10% of the surface, the largest boulder in the area is 1.5 meters. Craters are negligible on the Van Serg crater rim.
79511
79512
79513
79514
79515	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
79516	rock	high-Ti mare basalt	High-Ti Mare Basalt
79517	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; the orignal sample remains intact as of the Catalog (Oct 1993) and no wrk has been conducted.
79518	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79519	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; orignal sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79520
79521
79522
79523
79524
79525	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79526	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; original sample remains intack as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79527	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79528	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79529	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79530
79531
79532
79533
79534
79535	rock	breccia	Dark Mtarix Breccia; original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79536	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; the original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
79537	rock	breccia	Dark Matrix Breccia; original sample remains intact as of this Catalog (Oct 1993); no work has been conducted
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