Diamonds from the Buffalo Head Hills, Alberta: Formation in a non-conventional setting

Lithos

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 199-213

  Banas, Anetta ^a   Stachel, Thomas ^a   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a   McCandless, Tom E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Ashton Mining of Canada Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Diamond inclusions; Majorite; Nitrogen aggregation; Off craton

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIAMOND; KIMBERLITE; MAJORITE; NITROGEN; PARAGENESIS;

ALBERTA; BUFFALO HEAD HILLS; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845447627     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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