Genesis and evolution of kimberlites

A Giuliani, MW Schmidt, TH Torsvik… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Kimberlites are volcanic rocks enriched in CO2 and H2O and derive from the deepest-
sourced melts (up to 300 km) that reach Earth's surface. The mantle processes that generate …

Diamonds and the geology of mantle carbon

SB Shirey, P Cartigny, DJ Frost… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earth's carbon, derived from planetesimals in the 1 AU region during accretion of the Solar
System, still retains similarities to carbon found in meteorites (Marty et al. 2013) even after …

Water in the Earth's interior: distribution and origin

AH Peslier, M Schönbächler, H Busemann… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
The concentration and distribution of water in the Earth has influenced its evolution
throughout its history. Even at the trace levels contained in the planet's deep interior (mantle …

Late Oligocene–early Miocene transformation of postcollisional magmatism in Tibet

Z Guo, M Wilson - Geology, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau is thought to be one of the most important orogenic and
climate forcing events of the Cenozoic Era, associated with geodynamic changes related to …

Fluids associated with carbonatitic magmatism: A critical review and implications for carbonatite magma ascent

BF Walter, RJ Giebel, M Steele-MacInnis… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbonatites are formed from volatile-rich melts, commonly associated with a characteristic
hydrothermal footprint. However, studies of their fluid inclusions are relatively scarce and …

Kimberlites as geochemical probes of Earth's mantle

DG Pearson, J Woodhead… - Elements: An …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Kimberlites are ultrabasic, Si-undersaturated, low Al, low Na rocks rich in CO2 and H2O. The
distinctive geochemical character of kimberlite is strongly influenced by the nature of the …

The mechanical and strength properties of diamond

JE Field - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Diamond is an exciting material with many outstanding properties; see, for example Field JE
(ed) 1979 The Properties of Diamond (London: Academic) and Field JE (ed) 1992 The …

Sources and mobility of carbonate melts beneath cratons, with implications for deep carbon cycling, metasomatism and rift initiation

S Tappe, RL Romer, A Stracke, A Steenfelt… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Kimberlite and carbonatite magmas that intrude cratonic lithosphere are among the deepest
probes of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Their co-existence on thick continental shields is …

Fluxing of mantle carbon as a physical agent for metallogenic fertilization of the crust

DE Blanks, DA Holwell, ML Fiorentini, M Moroni… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magmatic systems play a crucial role in enriching the crust with volatiles and elements that
reside primarily within the Earth's mantle, including economically important metals like …

Evolution of carbonated melt to alkali basalt in the South China Sea

GL Zhang, LH Chen, MG Jackson, AW Hofmann - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
CO2 is considered to play a key role in the melting of the deep upper mantle, and
carbonated silicate melts have been widely predicted by partial melting experiments to exist …