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Table 1 Modal abundances (area %) of minerals in lunar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2977 and olivine cumulate gabbro (OC) clasts in NWA 773

From: Mineralogy and petrology of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 2977 consisting of olivine cumulate gabbro including inverted pigeonite

	Reference	Ol	Pig + Opx	Aug	Plg	Kfs	Oxide	Phos
NWA 2977	This work	50	25	12	12	Tr	Tr	Tr
	Bunch^a	51	23	9	14	–	–	–
	Zhang^b	41.1	39.1	11.9	7.1	0.1	0.5	0.2
NWA 773 OC	Fagan^c	55.5	18.9	8.7	14.2	1.6	1.2	<0.2
NWA 773 OC	Jolliff^d	48	29	11	11	Tr	Tr	Tr

Ol olivine, Pig pigeonite, Opx orthopyroxene, Aug augite, Plg plagioclase, Kfs K-feldspar, Oxide oxide phases, Phos phosphate, Tr trace amount
^aBunch et al. (2006)
^bZhang et al. (2011)
^cFagan et al. (2003)
^dJolliff et al. (2003)

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