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 …

Thermal expansivity, heat capacity and bulk modulus of the mantle

L Stixrude, C Lithgow-Bertelloni - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We derive exact expressions for the thermal expansivity, heat capacity and bulk modulus for
assemblages with arbitrarily large numbers of components and phases, including the …

Melting and phase relations of carbonated eclogite at 9–21 GPa and the petrogenesis of alkali-rich melts in the deep mantle

ES Kiseeva, KD Litasov, GM Yaxley, E Ohtani… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The melting and phase relations of carbonated MORB eclogite have been investigated
using the multi-anvil technique at 9–21 GPa and 1100–1900° C. The starting compositions …

Imperfections in natural diamond: the key to understanding diamond genesis and the mantle

MC Day, MG Pamato, D Novella, F Nestola - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2023 - Springer
Diamond has unique physical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties with respect to other
minerals and related synthetic compounds that make it extremely valuable from an …

Evaluating the formation pressure of diamond‐hosted majoritic garnets: A machine learning majorite barometer

AR Thomson, SC Kohn, A Prabhu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Diamond‐hosted majoritic garnet inclusions provide unique insights into the Earth's deep,
and otherwise inaccessible, mantle. Compared with other types of mineral inclusions found …

An experimental investigation of the stability of majoritic garnet in the Earth's mantle and an improved majorite geobarometer

CH Wijbrans, A Rohrbach, S Klemme - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2016 - Springer
The stability of the majorite component in garnet has been experimentally investigated at
high pressure and high temperature, focusing on the effect of bulk composition and …

High-pressure fluid-phase equilibria: Experimental methods, developments and systems investigated (2013–2016)

R Dohrn, S Peper, C Secuianu, JMS Fonseca - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2024 - Elsevier
With this article we extend our review series on high-pressure (above 1 MPa) phase
equilibrium data to articles published between 2013 and 2016, including a compilation of …

Na-bearing bridgmanite: Synthesis, phase relations and application to the origin of alkaline melts in the uppermost lower mantle

AV Bobrov, AP Tamarova, L Bindi, EA Matrosova… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
Experimental studies of melting relations in the MgSiO 3–Na 2 CO 3 (±Al 2 O 3, Fe 2 O 3)
multicomponent alkaline carbonate–silicate system were carried out at 23–24 GPa and …

What is mineral informatics?

A Prabhu, SM Morrison, P Fox, X Ma, ML Wong… - American …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Minerals are information-rich materials that offer researchers a glimpse into the evolution of
planetary bodies. Thus, it is important to extract, analyze, and interpret this abundance of …

Genesis of diamondiferous rocks from upper-mantle xenoliths in kimberlite

YA Litvin, AV Kuzyura, AV Bovkun, DA Varlamov… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Springer
The conditions of genesis of diamondiferous ultrabasic and basic rocks from xenoliths in
kimberlite were studied by combining the data from analytical investigations of their mineral …