Major and trace element composition of chromian diopsides from the Zagadochnaya kimberlite (Yakutia, Russia): Metasomatic processes, thermobarometry and diamond potential

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 397-412

  Nimis, Paolo ^a,b   Zanetti, Alberto ^b   Dencker, Isabel ^a   Sobolev, Nikolay V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Chromian diopside; Diamond potential; Kimberlite; Mantle metasomatism; Thermobarometry; Zagadochnaya

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIAMOND; DIOPSIDE; ENRICHMENT; HOST ROCK; KIMBERLITE; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PROCESS; MEGACRYST; METASOMATISM;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA;

EID: 70349160434     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.03.038     Document Type: Article

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