Nanocrystalline diamond from the Earth's mantle underneath Hawaii

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 357-369

  Wirth, Richard ^a   Rocholl, Alexander ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hawaiian islands; Mantle metasomatism; Nanocrystalline diamond; TEM

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; MANTLE; METASOMATISM; PYROXENITE; XENOLITH;

HAWAII; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; OAHU; PACIFIC ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038005945     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00204-8     Document Type: Article

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