High-temperature overprint in (U) HPM rocks exhumed from subduction zones; A product of isothermal decompression or a consequence of slab break-off (slab …

SW Faryad, SJ Cuthbert - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents and discusses petrological observations from high-to ultrahigh-pressure
(U) HP metamorphic terrains in relation to existing geophysical and numerical models for …

Recycling of crustal materials through study of ultrahigh-pressure minerals in collisional orogens, ophiolites, and mantle xenoliths: A review

JG Liou, T Tsujimori, J Yang, RY Zhang… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
Newly recognized occurrences of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) minerals including diamonds in
ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) felsic granulites of orogenic belts, in chromitites associated with …

Microdiamond discovered in the Seve Nappe (Scandinavian Caledonides) and its exhumation by the “vacuum-cleaner” mechanism

J Majka, Å Rosén, M Janák, N Froitzheim… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
When a continent collides with an island arc or other continent, continental crust of the
subducted continent may be buried to depths exceeding 100 km, and exposed to pressures …

Non-cratonic diamonds from UHP metamorphic terranes, ophiolites and volcanic sources

LF Dobrzhinetskaya… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The discovery of diamonds in metamorphic rocks of continental affinities occurred shortly
after the discovery of coesite in similar rocks. These important discoveries led to a revolution …

Microdiamond on Åreskutan confirms regional UHP metamorphism in the Seve Nappe Complex of the Scandinavian Caledonides

I Klonowska, M Janák, J Majka, I Petrik… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metamorphic diamond in crustal rocks provides important information on the deep
subduction of continental crust. Here, we present a new occurrence of diamond within the …

Deep subduction of continental crust in accretionary orogen: evidence from U–Pb dating on diamond-bearing zircons from the Qinling orogen, central China

H Wang, YB Wu, S Gao, JP Zheng, Q Liu, XC Liu… - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
Accretionary orogenic belts are considered the most important sites for the generation of
continental crust. However, it is still not very clear whether in such settings the continental …

Type Ib diamond formation and preservation in the West African lithospheric mantle: Re–Os age constraints from sulphide inclusions in Zimmi diamonds

KV Smit, SB Shirey, W Wang - Precambrian Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Ten sulphide inclusions in three diamonds from the Zimmi (West Africa) alluvial diamond
locality were analysed for their bulk Fe–Cu–Ni–Co contents and Re–Os isotopic …

Eclogite and garnet pyroxenite from Stor Jougdan, Seve Nappe Complex, Sweden: implications for UHP metamorphism of allochthons in the Scandinavian …

I Klonowska, M Janák, J Majka… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrahigh‐pressure metamorphism (UHPM) has recently been discovered in far‐travelled
allochthons of the Scandinavian Caledonides, including finding of diamond in the Seve …

Middle Ordovician subduction of continental crust in the Scandinavian Caledonides: an example from Tjeliken, Seve Nappe Complex, Sweden

K Fassmer, I Klonowska, K Walczak… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Seve Nappe Complex of the Scandinavian Caledonides is thought to be
derived from the distal passive margin of Baltica which collided with Laurentia in the …

Deformation-related spectroscopic features in natural Type Ib-IaA diamonds from Zimmi (West African craton)

KV Smit, UFS D'Haenens-Johansson, D Howell… - Mineralogy and …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Zimmi diamonds (Sierra Leone) have 500 million year mantle residency times
whose origin is best explained by rapid tectonic exhumation to shallower depths in the …