Diamond precipitation from ascending reduced fluids in the Kaapvaal lithosphere: Thermodynamic constraints

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-76

  Huizenga, Jan Marten ^a   Crossingham, Alexandra ^b   Viljoen, Fanus ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

C O H fluid; Diamond; Kaapvaal lithosphere; Redox melting; Thermodynamic modelling

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUGACITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELTING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRESSURE; REDOX CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

KAAPVAAL CRATON;

EID: 84858863964     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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