Phlogopite and quartz lamellae in diamond-bearing diopside from marbles of the Kokchetav massif, Kazakhstan: Exsolution or replacement reaction?

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 607-620

  Dobrzhinetskaya, L F ^a   Wirth, R ^b   Rhede, D ^b   Liu, Z ^c   Green, H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression and fluid; Diamond; K H rich diopside; Phlogopite exsolution; Ultra high pressure metamorphism

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; DIOPSIDE; EXSOLUTION; FLUID INCLUSION; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN BOUNDARY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MARBLE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHLOGOPITE; QUARTZ; REACTION KINETICS; SOURCE ROCK; TECTOSILICATE; TERRANE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; KOKCHETAV MASSIF; WEST ASIA;

EID: 70449887025     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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