Oxide, sulphide and carbonate minerals in a mantle polymict breccia: Metasomatism by proto-kimberlite magmas, and relationship to the kimberlite megacrystic suite

Chemical Geology

Volumn 353, Issue , 2013, Pages 4-18

  Giuliani, A ^a   Kamenetsky, V S ^b   Kendrick, M A ^a   Phillips, D ^a   Wyatt, B A ^c   Maas, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Wyatt Geological Consulting Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alkali carbonate; Ilmenite; Kimberlite; Lithospheric mantle; Megacryst suite; Polymict breccia

Indexed keywords

ALKALI-CARBONATE; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MEGACRYST SUITE; POLYMICT BRECCIA;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATION; CEMENTING (SHAFTS); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LIQUIDS; MICA; OLIVINE; OXIDE MINERALS; ROCKS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ILMENITE;

BRECCIA; CARBONATE ROCK; CHLORIDE; DOLOMITE; ILMENITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KALSILITE; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MAGNESITE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; OXIDE; PHLOGOPITE; PHOSPHATE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SILICATE MELT; SULFIDE; XENOLITH;

KIMBERLEY [NORTHERN CAPE]; NORTHERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84882877930     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.025     Document Type: Article

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