Ancient metasomatism recorded by ultra-depleted garnet inclusions in diamonds from DeBeers Pool, South Africa

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue , 2009, Pages 736-746

  Banas, A ^a   Stachel, T ^a   Phillips, D ^b   Shimizu, N ^c   Viljoen, K S ^d   Harris, J W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diamond inclusion; Metasomatism; Nb anomaly; Paleoarchean; REE; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CHONDRITE; DIAMOND; GARNET; GEOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; NIOBIUM; PARAGENESIS; PERIDOTITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70349564929     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.04.043     Document Type: Article

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