Compositions of kimberlite melts: A review of melt inclusions in kimberlite minerals

AV Golovin, VS Kamenetsky - Petrology, 2023 - Springer
The paper presents a comprehensive review of currently available data on melt inclusions
entrapped in minerals of kimberlites of different age and different provenance in ancient …

Alkali-carbonate melts from the base of cratonic lithospheric mantle: Links to kimberlites

AV Golovin, IS Sharygin, VS Kamenetsky… - Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Identification of the primary compositions of mantle-derived melts is crucial for
understanding mantle compositions and physical conditions of mantle melting. However …

Can primitive kimberlite melts be alkali‐carbonate liquids: Composition of the melt snapshots preserved in deepest mantle xenoliths

AV Golovin, IS Sharygin, AV Korsakov… - Journal of Raman …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The study of kimberlite rocks is important as they provide critical information regarding the
composition and dynamics of the continental mantle and are the principal source of …

Polymineralic inclusions in megacrysts as proxies for kimberlite melt evolution—a review

Y Bussweiler - Minerals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Polymineralic inclusions in megacrysts have been reported to occur in kimberlites
worldwide. The inclusions are likely the products of early kimberlite melt (s) which invaded …

Solidus and melting of carbonated phlogopite peridotite at 3–6.5 GPa: Implications for mantle metasomatism

A Shatskiy, A Bekhtenova, AV Arefiev… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well known that water significantly lowers mantle solidi. But it turns out this paradigm is
not always true. Here, we studied the interaction of K-rich carbonate melts with the natural …

Was crustal contamination involved in the formation of the serpentine-free Udachnaya-East kimberlite? New insights into parental melts, liquidus assemblage and …

A Abersteiner, VS Kamenetsky, AV Golovin… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The petrologically unique Udachnaya-East kimberlite (Siberia, Russia) is
characterised by unserpentinised and H2O-poor volcaniclastic and coherent units that …

Mineral Assemblage of Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions in a Mantle Xenolith from the V. Grib Kimberlite Pipe: Direct Evidence for the Presence of an Alkali-Rich …

AV Golovin, AA Tarasov, EV Agasheva - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
This report deals with the first mineralogical examination of secondary crystallized melt
inclusions (CMIs) in healed cracks within olivine in a mantle peridotite xenolith from the V …

Confocal Raman spectroscopic study of melt inclusions in olivine of mantle xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite pipe (Kimberley cluster, South Africa): Evidence for …

IS Sharygin, AV Golovin, AA Tarasov… - Journal of Raman …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the composition of primary/primitive mantle melts is crucial for understanding the
mantle's evolution and mantle‐derived magmatism. Melt inclusions in mantle xenoliths …

Thermal state, thickness, and composition of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Upper Muna Kimberlite Field (Siberian Craton) constrained by clinopyroxene …

AM Dymshits, IS Sharygin, VG Malkovets, IV Yakovlev… - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
To gain better insight into the thermal state and composition of the lithospheric mantle
beneath the Upper Muna kimberlite field (Siberian craton), a suite of 323 clinopyroxene …

Kelyphite around garnet in unaltered lherzolite xenolith from the Udachnaya pipe (Siberian Craton): formation exclusively via interaction with kimberlite melt

IS Sharygin, KA Solovev, AV Golovin - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Garnet grains in mantle-derived peridotite xenoliths from kimberlites are surrounded by fine-
grained aggregate of epigenetic minerals known as kelyphite. Existing models propose …