basalts

Armstrong and Aldrin along with pilot Michael Collins brought home with them dark-colored igneous rocks, called basalts, that were some 3.7 billion years old!

Bill Chameides: Is NASA Spacing Out? 2009

In certain dikes, and sometimes also, perhaps, in lavas known as basalts, which have flowed on the surface, the rock when cooling, from the shrinkage which then occurs, has broken in a very regular way, forming hexagonal columns which are more or less divided on their length by joints.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

KREEP basalts on the moon are 10-20 ppm Th. There was a single fragment from one of the Apollo missions with 50 ppm Th. The reserve base for terrestrial Th is 1. 2M metric tons, but going to ores as dilute as KREEP basalts would expand the reserve base enormously.

Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch 2009

KREEP basalts on the moon are 10-20 ppm Th. There was a single fragment from one of the Apollo missions with 50 ppm Th. We mine PGM's on the Earth as well as copper and gold at 1-5 ppm levels all the time.

Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch 2009

It is interesting that you would say that chemistry does not exist, (magma electrolys), nor any of the other several methods of extracting oxygen from lunar basalts.

Back to the Moon We Go - NASA Watch 2009

An ELE, thanks to global thermonuclear war (or, hell, even regional thermonuclear), major impactor, resumed volcanism leading to flood basalts, sea level fluctuations, Jesus, or a combination of any or all.

Matthew Yglesias » David Petraeus, Jew-Hater 2010

John W. Shervais, Scott K. Vetter, 2009, High-K alkali basalts of the Western Snake River Plain (Idaho): Abrupt transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkaline plume-derived basalts

Scientific Articles on Yellowstone 2010

Idaho; Transition from rhyolites of the Yellowstone Plateau to basalts of the Snake River

Scientific Articles on Yellowstone 2010

Other partnerships identified geological formations unique to their regions — such as organic-rich shales in the Illinois Basin, or flood basalts in the Columbia River Plateau — as other types of possible reservoirs for CO2 storage.

Geological Storage Capacity for CO2 in the United States 2009

One of the DOE regional carbon sequestration partnerships is exploring the possibility for using Columbia River Plateau flood basalts for storing CO2; however, investigations are in a preliminary stage.

Carbon capture and storage 2009