Petrographic studies on the NASA Lunar Sample thin section set : I. - the textural sequence of the basaltic samples and thier description by cellular automata mosaic model and tentative TTT-diagram

NASA Lunar Sample Educational Set is a valuable source for planetary petrology education. Using the basaltic thin sections and clast from breccias of the Apollo expedition lunar samples we made cosmopetrographic comparisons between the lunar and a terrestrial sequence. We made a tentative parallel layered sequence of the textures from a lunar mare cross section and a terrestrial pillow lava gradient from outside to inside. On the basis of textural comparisons we compiled a tentative TTT diagram for the lunar mare cooling rates and pillow lava textures