Ultrafresh salty kimberlite of the Udachnaya-East pipe (Yakutia, Russia): A petrological oddity or fortuitous discovery?

Lithos

Volumn 152, Issue , 2012, Pages 173-186

  Kamenetsky, Vadim S ^a   Kamenetsky, Maya B ^a   Golovin, Alexander V ^b   Sharygin, Victor V ^b   Maas, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Geochemistry; Kimberlite; Olivine; Primary melt; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLORIDE; COUNTRY ROCK; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTRAINMENT; HYDRATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; KIMBERLITE; LEACHING; MAGMA; MANTLE SOURCE; OLIVINE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFATE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; UDACHNAYA PIPE;

EID: 84867576760     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.04.032     Document Type: Article

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