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Silicate melt inclusions in diamonds of eclogite paragenesis from placers on the Northeastern Siberian Craton. / Shatsky, Vladislav; Zedgenizov, Dmitry; Ragozin, Alexey et al.

In: Minerals, Vol. 9, No. 7, 412, 01.07.2019.

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title = "Silicate melt inclusions in diamonds of eclogite paragenesis from placers on the Northeastern Siberian Craton",
abstract = "New findings of silicate-melt inclusions in two alluvial diamonds (from the Kholomolokh placer, northeastern Siberian Platform) are reported. Both diamonds exhibit a high degree of N aggregation state (60-70% B) suggesting their long residence in the mantle. Raman spectral analysis revealed that the composite inclusions consist of clinopyroxene and silicate glass. Hopper crystals of clinopyroxene were observed using scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive spectroscopic analyses; these are different in composition from the omphacite inclusions that co-exist in the same diamonds. The glasses in these inclusions contain relatively high SiO2, Al2O3, Na2O and, K2O. These composite inclusions are primary melt that partially crystallised at the cooling stage. Hopper crystals of clinopyroxene imply rapid cooling rates, likely related to the uplift of crystals in the kimberlite melt. The reconstructed composition of such primary melts suggests that they were formed as the product of metasomatised mantle. One of the most likely source of melts/fluids metasomatising the mantle could be a subducted slab.",
keywords = "Diamond, Diamond-forming fluids/melts, Mantle, Melt inclusions, Mineral inclusions, BEARING ECLOGITE, YAKUTIA, melt inclusions, PIPE, UDACHNAYA KIMBERLITE, FLUID INCLUSIONS, diamond-forming fluids, MANTLE, mineral inclusions, MINERAL INCLUSIONS, diamond, EVOLUTION, GROWTH, mantle, FIBROUS DIAMONDS, melts",
author = "Vladislav Shatsky and Dmitry Zedgenizov and Alexey Ragozin and Viktoriya Kalinina",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 by the authors.",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3390/min9070412",
language = "English",
volume = "9",
journal = "Minerals",
issn = "2075-163X",
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T1 - Silicate melt inclusions in diamonds of eclogite paragenesis from placers on the Northeastern Siberian Craton

AU - Shatsky, Vladislav

AU - Zedgenizov, Dmitry

AU - Ragozin, Alexey

AU - Kalinina, Viktoriya

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 by the authors.

PY - 2019/7/1

Y1 - 2019/7/1

N2 - New findings of silicate-melt inclusions in two alluvial diamonds (from the Kholomolokh placer, northeastern Siberian Platform) are reported. Both diamonds exhibit a high degree of N aggregation state (60-70% B) suggesting their long residence in the mantle. Raman spectral analysis revealed that the composite inclusions consist of clinopyroxene and silicate glass. Hopper crystals of clinopyroxene were observed using scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive spectroscopic analyses; these are different in composition from the omphacite inclusions that co-exist in the same diamonds. The glasses in these inclusions contain relatively high SiO2, Al2O3, Na2O and, K2O. These composite inclusions are primary melt that partially crystallised at the cooling stage. Hopper crystals of clinopyroxene imply rapid cooling rates, likely related to the uplift of crystals in the kimberlite melt. The reconstructed composition of such primary melts suggests that they were formed as the product of metasomatised mantle. One of the most likely source of melts/fluids metasomatising the mantle could be a subducted slab.

AB - New findings of silicate-melt inclusions in two alluvial diamonds (from the Kholomolokh placer, northeastern Siberian Platform) are reported. Both diamonds exhibit a high degree of N aggregation state (60-70% B) suggesting their long residence in the mantle. Raman spectral analysis revealed that the composite inclusions consist of clinopyroxene and silicate glass. Hopper crystals of clinopyroxene were observed using scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive spectroscopic analyses; these are different in composition from the omphacite inclusions that co-exist in the same diamonds. The glasses in these inclusions contain relatively high SiO2, Al2O3, Na2O and, K2O. These composite inclusions are primary melt that partially crystallised at the cooling stage. Hopper crystals of clinopyroxene imply rapid cooling rates, likely related to the uplift of crystals in the kimberlite melt. The reconstructed composition of such primary melts suggests that they were formed as the product of metasomatised mantle. One of the most likely source of melts/fluids metasomatising the mantle could be a subducted slab.

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