Kimberlites, flood basalts and mantle plumes: New insights from the Deccan Large Igneous Province

NVC Rao, B Lehmann - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
A clear-cut temporal and spatial relationship between small-volume, volatile-rich and highly
potassic continental melt fractions, such as kimberlites and related rocks, and large-volume …

Mesoproterozoic U–Pb ages, trace element and Sr–Nd isotopic composition of perovskite from kimberlites of the Eastern Dharwar craton, southern India: Distinct …

NVC Rao, FY Wu, RH Mitchell, QL Li, B Lehmann - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
We report new U–Pb ages of groundmass perovskite determined by secondary ion mass
spectrometry, trace element, and Sr and Nd isotopic compositions for twelve kimberlites …

Perovskite and baddeleyite from kimberlitic intrusions in the Tarim large igneous province signal the onset of an end-Carboniferous mantle plume

D Zhang, Z Zhang, M Santosh, Z Cheng, H He… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Several tens of kimberlitic pipes and dykes are exposed in the Wajilitag area in the western
Tarim large igneous province. Here we report for the first time secondary ion mass …

Subduction–Tectonics in the evolution of the eastern Dharwar craton, southern India: Insights from the post-collisional calc-alkaline lamprophyres at the western …

A Pandey, NVC Rao, D Pandit, P Pankaj, R Pandey… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
The geodynamic evolution of the eastern Dharwar craton, southern India, is widely debated
with a number of contrasting models ranging from uniformitarian plate convergence to the …

Mineralogy of the TK1 and TK4 'kimberlites' in the Timmasamudram cluster, Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field, India: Implications for lamproite magmatism in a field of …

AM Shaikh, SC Patel, S Ravi, D Behera, KL Pruseth - Chemical Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
A mineralogical study of the hypabyssal facies, late Cretaceous macrocrystic pulse of TK1
intrusion and the Mesoproterozoic aphanitic pulse of TK4 intrusion in the Wajrakarur …

Petrogenesis of Mediterranean lamproites and associated rocks: The role of overprinted metasomatic events in the post-collisional lithospheric upper mantle

M Casalini, R Avanzinelli, S Tommasini, C Natali… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
High-MgO lamproite and lamproite-like (ie lamprophyric) ultrapotassic rocks are recurrent in
the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. They are associated in space and time with …

Subduction-related origin of eclogite xenoliths from the Wajrakarur kimberlite field, Eastern Dharwar craton, Southern India: Constraints from petrology and …

AN Dongre, DE Jacob, RA Stern - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Major and trace elements as well as the first oxygen isotopes are reported on eclogite
xenoliths from the Mesoproterozoic KL2 and P3 kimberlite pipes of the Wajrakarur kimberlite …

Apatite compositions and groundmass mineralogy record divergent melt/fluid evolution trajectories in coherent kimberlites caused by differing emplacement …

A Soltys, A Giuliani, D Phillips - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2020 - Springer
Kimberlites are pipe-like igneous bodies, consisting of a pyroclastic crater and diatreme,
commonly underlain by coherent root-zone rocks, and with associated dyke/sill complexes …

[HTML][HTML] Petrogenesis of the diamondiferous Pipe-8 ultramafic intrusion from the Wajrakarur kimberlite field of Southern India and its relation to the worldwide …

A Dongre, KS Viljoen, G Belyanin, P Le Roux… - Geoscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
Detailed mineralogy, bulk rock major, trace and Sr–Nd isotope compositions, and 40 Ar/39
Ar dating of the Pipe-8 diamondiferous ultramafic intrusion in the Wajrakarur cluster of …

Re–Os isotope study of Indian kimberlites and lamproites: implications for mantle source regions and cratonic evolution

NVC Rao, RA Creaser, B Lehmann, BK Panwar - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
We report the first Re–Os isotope data for samples from Mesoproterozoic kimberlite and
lamproite occurrences from the Eastern Dharwar craton and end-Cretaceous Kodomali …