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 …

Mineral Assemblage of Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions in a Mantle Xenolith from the V. Grib Kimberlite Pipe: Direct Evidence for the Presence of an Alkali-Rich …

AV Golovin, AA Tarasov, EV Agasheva - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
This report deals with the first mineralogical examination of secondary crystallized melt
inclusions (CMIs) in healed cracks within olivine in a mantle peridotite xenolith from the V …

Kelyphite around garnet in unaltered lherzolite xenolith from the Udachnaya pipe (Siberian Craton): formation exclusively via interaction with kimberlite melt

IS Sharygin, KA Solovev, AV Golovin - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Garnet grains in mantle-derived peridotite xenoliths from kimberlites are surrounded by fine-
grained aggregate of epigenetic minerals known as kelyphite. Existing models propose …

Confocal Raman spectroscopic study of melt inclusions from peridotite xenoliths in economic and barren kimberlites from Kaapvaal Craton

S Khan, Y Fedortchouk, M Feichter… - Journal of Raman …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Melt inclusions trapped in minerals inside xenoliths from kimberlites can help to examine the
composition of kimberlite melt and/or metasomatic processes in the subcratonic lithospheric …

Carbonatite Research: The African Legacy

AN Zaitsev, J Spratt - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Almost all igneous rocks are composed of silicate minerals; carbonatites are the main
exception to this rule. They form only a minor proportion of the continental crust but are of …

Melt inclusions in chromium spinel of kimberlites of the Zapolyarnaya Pipe, Upper Muna Field, Siberian Craton

SV Potapov, IS Sharygin, KM Konstantinov… - Doklady Earth …, 2022 - Springer
The results of study of primary melt inclusions in сhromium spinel of kimberlites of the middle
Paleozoic Zapolyarnaya pipe (Upper Muna field, Siberian Craton) are presented. The …

Aragonite in the interstitial space of a mantle xenolith from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe (Siberian Craton): direct evidence for the presence of carbonatite melts in …

AV Golovin, KA Solovev, IS Sharygin… - Doklady Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
This paper reports the first discovery of zoned aragonite, a high-pressure CaCO3
polymorph, in a mantle xenolith from kimberlite. Aragonite is the most common epigenetic …

The NaCl–CaCO3–MgCO3 System at 3 GPa: Implications for Mantle Solidi

AF Shatskiy, IV Podborodnikov… - Russian Geology …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Alkaline chlorides are important constituents of carbonatitic inclusions in magmatic minerals
from kimberlites and lamproites, mantle xenoliths from kimberlites, and diamonds from …

Ab Initio Studies of the Influence of Pressure on the Structure and Electronic and Elastic Properties of Carbonates of Alkaline and Alkaline-Earth Metals

YN Zhuravlev - Physics of the Solid State, 2022 - Springer
The influence of pressure on the structural, electronic and elastic properties of K2Ca (CO3)
2, K2Mg (CO3) 2, Na2Ca2 (CO3) 3, and Na2Mg (CO3) 2 has been studied by methods of …

Melt composition and phase equilibria in the eclogite-carbonate system at 6 GPa and 900–1500° C

A Shatskiy, A Bekhtenova, AV Arefiev, KD Litasov - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Melting phase relations in the eclogite-carbonate system were studied at 6 GPa and 900–
1500° C. Starting mixtures were prepared by blending natural bimineral eclogite group A …