Subducted oceanic crust as diamond hosts revealed by garnets of mantle xenoliths from Nyurbinskaya, Siberia

Lithos

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 368-378

  Riches, Amy J V ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Day, James M D ^b   Spetsius, Zdislav V ^c   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c ALROSA Co Ltd   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Craton; Diamond; Eclogite; Lithosphere formation; Yakutia

Indexed keywords

CRATON; DIAMOND; ECLOGITE; GARNET; HARZBURGITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; OCEANIC CRUST; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA;

EID: 78649447152     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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