Petrology of a stratified boulder from South Massif, Taurus-Littrow

Boulder 1 from Station 2 at the foot of South Massif is unique in being the only stratified boulder sampled by the Apollo 17 astronauts. Our studies of two of the four specimens that were collected from separate layers show that the boulder is composed of glass-poor, fragment-rich breccias which are aggregates of differentially annealed terra material, mainly ANT, but including basaltic troctolite, pigeonite basalt, granitic particles, dark breccia-rimmed anorthositic clasts, and a KREEPless norite that has not been recognized elsewhere at the Apollo 17 site. The boulder appears to derive from the uppermost blue-gray layer on South Massif, which we believe consists of ejecta deposited from a single large impact event (possibly the one which excavated the Serenitatis Basin).