Fluid inclusions in fibrous diamonds

Y Weiss, J Czas, O Navon - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Most diamonds are metasomatic minerals, which means they grew from fluids or melts that
moved through solid mantle rocks and chemically interacted with them. The involvement of …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a new model for kimberlite petrogenesis: Evidence from unaltered kimberlites and mantle minerals

VS Kamenetsky, AV Golovin, R Maas, A Giuliani… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Kimberlites represent magmas derived from great mantle depths and are the principal
source of diamonds. Kimberlites and their xenolith cargo have been extremely useful for …

Metasomatism in lithospheric mantle roots: Constraints from whole-rock and mineral chemical composition of deformed peridotite xenoliths from kimberlite pipe …

AM Agashev, DA Ionov, NP Pokhilenko, AV Golovin… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
We report new data on the geochemical evolution, metasomatic and deformation processes
in the lower layers of cratonic lithospheric mantle based on a detailed study of …

High water contents in the Siberian cratonic mantle linked to metasomatism: An FTIR study of Udachnaya peridotite xenoliths

LS Doucet, AH Peslier, DA Ionov, AD Brandon… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The processes that control water distribution in nominally anhydrous minerals from
peridotites are twofold. Melt depletion will remove water while metasomatism can potentially …

Can primitive kimberlite melts be alkali‐carbonate liquids: Composition of the melt snapshots preserved in deepest mantle xenoliths

AV Golovin, IS Sharygin, AV Korsakov… - Journal of Raman …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The study of kimberlite rocks is important as they provide critical information regarding the
composition and dynamics of the continental mantle and are the principal source of …

Ultrafresh salty kimberlite of the Udachnaya–East pipe (Yakutia, Russia): A petrological oddity or fortuitous discovery?

VS Kamenetsky, MB Kamenetsky, AV Golovin… - Lithos, 2012 - Elsevier
An ultrabasic/ultramafic composition of kimberlite magmas is difficult to reconcile with
existing models of the kimberlite mantle source and melting conditions, inferred magma …

The origin of coarse garnet peridotites in cratonic lithosphere: new data on xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite, central Siberia

LS Doucet, DA Ionov, AV Golovin - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2013 - Springer
We report new textural and chemical data for 10 garnet peridotite xenoliths from the
Udachnaya kimberlite and examine them together with recent data on another 21 xenoliths …

Olivine in kimberlites: magma evolution from deep mantle to eruption

A Abersteiner, VS Kamenetsky, K Goemann… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Elucidating the origin, composition and physical properties of primary kimberlite melts is
crucial to our understanding of their source, petrogenesis, ascent mechanisms and …

Compositional variability of terrestrial mantle apatites, thermodynamic modeling of apatite volatile contents, and the halogen and water budgets of planetary mantles

AEP Douce, MF Roden, J Chaumba, C Fleisher… - Chemical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Apatites in ultramafic xenoliths from Hawaii, Kamchatka, Nunivak Island, Lunar Crater
volcanic field and the Navajo volcanic field have variable volatile (F, Cl, OH) compositions …

Syngenetic phlogopite inclusions in kimberlite-hosted diamonds: implications for role of volatiles in diamond formation

NV Sobolev, AM Logvinova, ES Efimova - Russian Geology and …, 2009 - Elsevier
We discuss the chemistry of exceptionally rare phlogopite inclusions coexisting with
ultramafic (peridotitic) and eclogitic minerals in kimberlite-hosted diamonds of Yakutia …