Extremely depleted lithospheric mantle and diamonds beneath the southern Zimbabwe Craton

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue , 2009, Pages 1120-1132

  Smith, Chris B ^a   Pearson, D Graham ^b   Bulanova, Galina P ^c   Beard, Andrew D ^d   Carlson, Richard W ^e   Wittig, Nadine ^b   Sims, Keith ^f   Chimuka, Lovemore ^g   Muchemwa, Ellah ^g  

^a Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Ltd   (South Africa)

^g Murowa Diamonds   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Diamond; Kimberlite macrocrysts; Lithospheric mantle; Peridotite xenoliths; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; DIAMOND; DUNITE; GREENSTONE BELT; HARZBURGITE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELT INCLUSION; METASOMATISM; P-T CONDITIONS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC SETTING; XENOLITH;

AFRICA; LIMPOPO BELT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 71849120383     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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