Parental carbonatitic melt of the Koala kimberlite (Canada): Constraints from melt inclusions in olivine and Cr-spinel, and groundmass carbonate

Chemical Geology

Volumn 353, Issue , 2013, Pages 96-111

  Kamenetsky, Vadim S ^a   Grütter, Herman ^b   Kamenetsky, Maya B ^a   Gömann, Karsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b BHP Billiton   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Chromite; Kimberlite; Melt inclusions; Olivine; Primary melt

Indexed keywords

HEATING AND COOLING; HEATING EXPERIMENT; HYPABYSSAL KIMBERLITE; KIMBERLITE; LIQUID IMMISCIBILITY; MELT INCLUSIONS; NATROCARBONATITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS;

CALCITE; CALCIUM; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; CHLORIDE MINERALS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CHROMITE; CHROMITE DEPOSITS; IODINE; LIQUIDS; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATES; SODIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

OLIVINE;

CALCITE; CARBONATITE; CHLORIDE; CHROMITE; CHROMIUM; FORSTERITE; IMMISCIBILITY; KIMBERLITE; MELT INCLUSION; OLIVINE; PALEOGENE; PHENOCRYST; PHOSPHATE; SPINEL; SULFATE;

PHASCOLARCTIDAE;

EID: 84883655087     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.022     Document Type: Article

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