Metasomatic origin of diamonds in the world's largest diamondiferous eclogite

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue , 2009, Pages 1014-1024

  Liu, Yang ^a   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a   Sarbadhikari, Amit Basu ^a   Valley, John W ^b   Ushikubo, Takayuki ^b   Spicuzza, Michael J ^b   Kita, Noriko ^b   Ketcham, Richard A ^c   Carlson, William ^c   Shatsky, Vladislav ^d   Sobolev, Nikolai V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Diamond; Eclogite xenolith; Metasomatic origin; SIMS

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAMOND; ECLOGITE; FLUID INCLUSION; HOST ROCK; KIMBERLITE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METASOMATISM; ZONING;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 71749097593     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.036     Document Type: Article

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