Carbonate-chloride enrichment in fresh kimberlites of the Udachnaya-East pipe, Siberia: A clue to physical properties of kimberlite magmas?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Kamenetsky, Vadim S ^a   Kamenetsky, Maya B ^a   Sharygin, Victor V ^b   Golovin, Alexander V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CARBONATES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMONDS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

CARBONATE-CHLORIDE; KIMBERLITE; MAGMA;

MINERALOGY;

CARBONATE; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHLORIDE; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENRICHMENT; KIMBERLITE; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MANTLE CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 34347261663     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029389     Document Type: Article

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