Sources of carbon in inclusion bearing diamonds

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue , 2009, Pages 625-637

  Stachel, Thomas ^a   Harris, Jeff W ^b   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Carbonate; Methane; Nitrogen; Rayleigh fractionation

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DIAMOND; FLUID INCLUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LHERZOLITE; METHANE; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 70349571266     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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