Compositions of kimberlite melts: A review of melt inclusions in kimberlite minerals

AV Golovin, VS Kamenetsky - Petrology, 2023 - Springer
The paper presents a comprehensive review of currently available data on melt inclusions
entrapped in minerals of kimberlites of different age and different provenance in ancient …

[HTML][HTML] CaCO3 phase diagram studied with Raman spectroscopy at pressures up to 50 GPa and high temperatures and DFT modeling

L Bayarjargal, CJ Fruhner, N Schrodt… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We revise the high pressure, high temperature phase diagram of CaCO 3 using Raman
spectroscopy in conjunction with laser heated diamond anvil cell experiments. We confirm …

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 …

Fate of Carbonates in the Earth's Mantle (10-136 GPa)

J Gao, X Wu, X Yuan, W Su - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Earth carbon cycle shapes the evolution of our planet and our habitats. As a key region of
carbon cycle, subduction zone acts as a sole channel transporting supracrustal carbonate …

Aragonite-II and CaCO3-VII: New High-Pressure, High-Temperature Polymorphs of CaCO3

PN Gavryushkin, NS Martirosyan… - Crystal Growth & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The importance for the global carbon cycle, the P–T phase diagram of CaCO3 has been
under extensive investigation since the invention of the high-pressure techniques. However …

Comprehensive density functional theory studies of vibrational spectra of carbonates

YN Zhuravlev, VV Atuchin - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Within the framework of the density functional theory (DFT) and the hybrid functional B3LYP
by means of the CRYSTAL17 program code, the wavenumbers and intensities of normal …

R3m: A New High-Pressure and/or High-Temperature Phase of PbCO3, SrCO3, BaCO3, and Possibly of CaCO3

PN Gavryushkin, MV Banaev, NE Sagatov… - Crystal Growth & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the present study, we use the crystal structure prediction technique to reveal the new high-
pressure structures of PbCO3, SrCO3, and BaCO3. As a result, we found the new calcite-like …

New High-Pressure and High-Temperature CaCO3 Polymorph

D Druzhbin, SV Rashchenko, A Shatskiy… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this work, we report an experimental observation of a new CaCO3 calcite-Vb phase,
which occurs as the intermediate between aragonite and calcite-V at pressures> 3.5 GPa …

Stability and Reactions of CaCO3 Polymorphs in the Earth's Deep Mantle

Z Zhang, Z Mao, X Liu, Y Zhang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As an important component of carbonates in the mantle, CaCO3 is a major carrier of carbon
from the surface to the deep interiors. In recent years, new varieties of CaCO3 polymorphs …

[HTML][HTML] A first-principles study of helium diffusion in aragonite under high pressure up to 40 GPa

Y Huang, M Hou, H Liu - Geoscience Frontiers, 2024 - Elsevier
Helium diffusion in carbonates under mantle pressure is crucial for understanding thermal
and chemical evolution of mantle. Based on the density functional theory (DFT) and the the …