Highly evolved hypabyssal kimberlite sills from Wemindji, Quebec, Canada: Insights into the process of flow differentiation in kimberlite magmas

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 765-776

  Zurevinski, Shannon E ^a   Mitchell, Roger H ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dolomite; Flow differentiation; Kimberlite; Monazite (Ce); Sills; Spinel; Wemindji

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY MINERAL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DOLOMITE; HYPABYSSAL ROCK; KIMBERLITE; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MONAZITE; OLIVINE; SILL; SOLID SOLUTION; SPINEL; TEXTURE;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; WEMINDJI;

EID: 79953800529     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0561-8     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Apter DB, Harper FJ, Wyatt BA, Scott Smith BH (1984) The Geology of the Mayeng Sill complex, South Africa. In: Kornprobst J (ed) Kimberlite I: kimberlites and related rocks. Elsevier, New York, pp 43-57.
2. Birkett TC, McCandless TE, Hood CT (2003) Petrology of the Renard igneous bodies: host rocks for diamonds in the Northern Otish mountains region, Quebec. In: Proceedings of the 8th international kimberlite conference, Victoria, BC, p 57.
3. Boctor NZ, Boyd FR (1981) Oxide minerals in a layered kimberlite-carbonatite sill from Benfontein, South Africa. Contrib Mineral Petrol 76: 253-259.
4. Coopersmith HG, Mitchell RH, and Hausel WD (2003) Kimberlites and lamproites of Colorado and Wyoming, USA. In: Field excursion guidebook for the 8th international kimberlite conference. Geological Survey of Canada, p 24.
5. Dawson JB, Hawthorne JB (1973) Magmatic sedimentation and carbonatite differentiation in kimberlite sills at Benfontein, SA. Geol J 129: 61-85.
6. Digonnet S, Goulet N, Bourne J, Stevenson R, Archibald D (2000) Petrology of the Abloviak Aillikite dykes, New Quebec: evidence for a Cambrian diamondiferous alkaline province in Northeastern North America. Can J Earth Sci 37: 517-533.
7. 3+ concentrations in ferromagnesian silicates and oxides from microprobe analyses, using stoichiometric criteria. Min Mag 51: 431-435.
8. Field M, Gernon TM, Mock SA, Walters A, Sparks RSJ, Jerram DA (2009) Variations of olivine abundance and grain size in the Snap Lake kimberlite intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada: a possible proxy for diamonds. Lithos 112: 23-35.
9. Hawthorne JB (1968) Kimberlite Sills. Geol Soc S Afr Trans 71: 291-311.
10. Heaman LM, Kjarsgaard BA, Creaser RA (2004) The temporal evolution of North American kimberlites. Lithos 76: 377-397.
11. Hocq M (1994) La province du Supérieur. Géologie du Québec, Ministère des Richessess Naturelles du Québec. MM 94-101. pp 7-20.
12. Letendre J, L'Heureux ML, Nowicki T and Creaser R (2003) The Wemindji kimberlites: exploration and Geology. In: 8th international kimberlite conference long abstract.
13. Mannard GW (1962) The Singida kimberlite pipes, Tanganyika. Ph. D. thesis. McGill University, Montreal.
14. McMahon BM, Haggerty SE (1984) The Benfontein kimberlite sills; magmatic reactions and high intrusion temperatures. Am J Sci 284: 893-941.
15. Mitchell RH (1984) Mineralogy and origin of carbonate-rich segregations in a composite kimberlite sill. Neues Jahrb Mineral Abh 150: 185-197.
16. Mitchell RH (1986) Kimberlites. Plenum Press, New York.
17. Mitchell RH (1994) Accessory rare earth, strontium, barium and zirconium minerals in the Benfontein and Wesselton calcite kimberlites, South Africa. In: Proceedings of 5th international kimberlite conference (Meyer, HOA & Leonardos, OH), CPRM Brasilia Special Publication 1/A, pp 115-128.
18. Mitchell RH (1995) Kimberlites, orangeites, and related rocks. Plenum Press, New York.
19. Mitchell RH (2008) Petrology of hypabyssal kimberlites: relevance to primary magma compositions. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 174: 1-8.
20. 2-rich environment: examples from carbonatite and kimberlite. Can Mineral 36: 939-952.
21. Mitchell RH, Clarke DB (1976) Oxide and sulphide mineralogy of the Peuyuk kimberlite, Somerset Island, N. W. T., Canada. Contrib Mineral Petrol 56: 157-172.
22. Mitchell RH, and Letendre J (2003) Mineralogy and petrology of kimberlite from Wemindji, Quebec. In: 8th international kimberlite conference long abstract.
23. Mogg T, Kopylova MG, Scott Smith BH, and Kirkley M (2003) Petrology of the snap lake kimberlite, NWT, Canada. In: Extended abstracts of the 8th international kimberlite conference, Victoria, Canada (unpaginated CD-ROM).
24. Moorhead J, Beaumier M, Lefèvre D, Bernier L and Martel D (1999) Kimberlites, linéaments et rifts crustaux au Quebec. Géologie Québec, MB, pp 99-35.
25. Pasteris JD (1980) Opaque oxide phases of the DeBeers pipe kimberlite (Kimberly, South Africa) and their petrologic significance. Ph. D. thesis, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
26. 2) in kimberlite from Benfontein, South Africa. Mineral Mag 48: 257-261.
27. Scott Smith BH (2008) Canadian kimberlites: geological characteristics relevant to emplacement. J Volcano Geotherm Res 174: 9-19.
28. Scott Smith BH, Skinner EMW, Clement CR (1983) Further data on the occurrence of pectolite in kimberlite. Mineral Mag 47: 75-78.
29. Skinner EMW (1989) Contrasting Group I and Group II kimberlite petrology: towards a genetic model for kimberlites. In: Ross J, Jaques AL, Ferguson J, Green DH, O'Reilly SY, Danchin RV, Janse AJA (eds) Kimberlites and related rocks: their composition, occurrence, origin and emplacement. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Sydney, pp 528-544.
30. Wagner PA (1914) The diamond fields of Southern Africa. The Transvaal leader, Johannesburg, p 347.