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 …

CO2-rich melts in Earth

G Yaxley, S Ghosh, K Kiseeva, A Mallik, A Thomson… - 2019 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This chapter reviews the systematics of partial melting of mantle lithologies–like peridotite
and eclogite–in the presence of carbon dioxide. It discusses the composition of mantle …

Experimental investigation of the composition of incipient melts in upper mantle peridotites in the presence of CO2 and H2O

Z Pintér, SF Foley, GM Yaxley, A Rosenthal, RP Rapp… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
The compositions of mantle-derived magmas indicate a substantial variety in the
abundances of volatiles in the upper mantle. CO 2 and H 2 O depress the melting point of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon compounds in the West Kimberley lamproites (Australia): Insights from melt and fluid inclusions

A Abersteiner, A Golovin, I Chayka, VS Kamenetsky… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Petrological and geochemical studies of lamproites can provide useful insights into the
nature of their lithospheric mantle sources, but their geochemical and mineralogical diversity …

Olivine in kimberlites: magma evolution from deep mantle to eruption

A Abersteiner, VS Kamenetsky, K Goemann… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Elucidating the origin, composition and physical properties of primary kimberlite melts is
crucial to our understanding of their source, petrogenesis, ascent mechanisms and …

Solidus and melting of carbonated phlogopite peridotite at 3–6.5 GPa: Implications for mantle metasomatism

A Shatskiy, A Bekhtenova, AV Arefiev… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well known that water significantly lowers mantle solidi. But it turns out this paradigm is
not always true. Here, we studied the interaction of K-rich carbonate melts with the natural …

Phlogopite-forming reactions as indicators of metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle

O Safonov, V Butvina, E Limanov - Minerals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Phlogopite is widely accepted as a major mineral indicator of the modal metasomatism in
the upper mantle within a very wide P–T range. The paper reviews data on various …

Composition and emplacement of the Benfontein kimberlite sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion constraints

A Abersteiner, VS Kamenetsky, K Goemann, A Giuliani… - Lithos, 2019 - Elsevier
The Benfontein kimberlite is a renowned example of a sill complex and provides an
excellent opportunity to examine the emplacement and evolution of intrusive kimberlite …

Was crustal contamination involved in the formation of the serpentine-free Udachnaya-East kimberlite? New insights into parental melts, liquidus assemblage and …

A Abersteiner, VS Kamenetsky, AV Golovin… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The petrologically unique Udachnaya-East kimberlite (Siberia, Russia) is
characterised by unserpentinised and H2O-poor volcaniclastic and coherent units that …