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 …

Geochemistry of silicate and oxide inclusions in sublithospheric diamonds

MJ Walter, AR Thomson… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Minerals included in diamonds provide direct information about the petrologic and chemical
environment of diamond crystallization. They record information relating to local and …

Discovery of davemaoite, CaSiO3-perovskite, as a mineral from the lower mantle

O Tschauner, S Huang, S Yang, M Humayun, W Liu… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Calcium silicate perovskite, CaSiO3, is arguably the most geochemically important phase in
the lower mantle, because it concentrates elements that are incompatible in the upper …

Blue boron-bearing diamonds from Earth's lower mantle

EM Smith, SB Shirey, SH Richardson, F Nestola… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Geological pathways for the recycling of Earth's surface materials into the mantle are both
driven and obscured by plate tectonics,–. Gauging the extent of this recycling is difficult …

Peridotites, chromitites and diamonds in ophiolites

J Yang, W Wu, D Lian, H Rui - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Ophiolites, which represent segments of oceanic lithosphere obducted onto the continental
crust, provide an important window into processes such as continental rifting, mantle …

Slab transport of fluids to deep focus earthquake depths—thermal modeling constraints and evidence from diamonds

SB Shirey, LS Wagner, MJ Walter, DG Pearson… - AGU …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The nature and cause of deep earthquakes remain enduring unknowns in the field of
seismology. We present new models of thermal structures of subducted slabs traced to …

Sound velocity of CaSiO3 perovskite suggests the presence of basaltic crust in the Earth's lower mantle

S Gréaux, T Irifune, Y Higo, Y Tange, T Arimoto, Z Liu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Laboratory measurements of sound velocities of high-pressure minerals provide crucial
information on the composition and constitution of the deep mantle via comparisons with …

Enhanced near‐infrared photocatalytic eradication of MRSA biofilms and osseointegration using oxide perovskite‐based P–N heterojunction

C Mao, W Zhu, Y Xiang, Y Zhu, J Shen, X Liu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilm infections after orthopedic
implant increase the risk of failure and potentially cause amputation of limbs or life …

Kimberlites reveal 2.5-billion-year evolution of a deep, isolated mantle reservoir

J Woodhead, J Hergt, A Giuliani, R Maas, D Phillips… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The widely accepted paradigm of Earth's geochemical evolution states that the successive
extraction of melts from the mantle over the past 4.5 billion years formed the continental …

Impact shock origin of diamonds in ureilite meteorites

F Nestola, CA Goodrich, M Morana… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The origin of diamonds in ureilite meteorites is a timely topic in planetary geology as recent
studies have proposed their formation at static pressures> 20 GPa in a large planetary body …