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Titanium-rich basaltic melts on the Moon modulated by reactive flow processes - Nature Geoscience
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The origin of titanium-rich basaltic magmatism on the Moon remains enigmatic. Ilmenite-bearing cumulates in the lunar mantle are often credited as the source, but their partial melts are not a compositional match and are too dense to enable eruption. Here we use petrological reaction experiments to show that partial melts of ilmenite-bearing cumulates react with olivine and orthopyroxene in the lunar mantle, shifting the melt composition to that of the high-Ti suite.
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