An early extensively molten silicate reservoir in the Moon. The flotation model forms an anorthosite-rich crust by accumulation of buoyant plagioclase, leaving differentiated cumulates and incompatible-element-rich residual liquid beneath. The distribution of late KREEP-rich material and the survival of hemispheric chemical gradients are important constraints on proposed explanations of the lunar crustal dichotomy.
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