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 …

Olivine in kimberlites: magma evolution from deep mantle to eruption

A Abersteiner, VS Kamenetsky, K Goemann… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Elucidating the origin, composition and physical properties of primary kimberlite melts is
crucial to our understanding of their source, petrogenesis, ascent mechanisms and …

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 …

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 …

The age and origin of cratonic lithospheric mantle: Archean dunites vs. Paleoproterozoic harzburgites from the Udachnaya kimberlite, Siberian craton

DA Ionov, Z Liu, J Li, AV Golovin, AV Korsakov… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Cratonic lithospheric mantle is believed to have been formed in the Archean, but kimberlite-
hosted coarse peridotites from Udachnaya in the central Siberian craton typically yield …

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 …

Pyroxene-carbonate reactions in the CaMgSi2O6 ± NaAlSi2O6 + MgCO3 ± Na2CO3 ± K2CO3 system at 3–6 GPa: Implications for partial melting of …

A Shatskiy, IV Podborodnikov, AV Arefiev… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2021 - Springer
The reactions between pyroxenes and carbonates have been studied in the CaMgSi 2 O 6+
MgCO 3 (Di+ 2Mgs), CaMgSi 2 O 6+ NaAlSi 2 O 6+ 2MgCO 3 (Di+ Jd+ 2Mgs), CaMgSi 2 O …

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 …

Metasomatic evolution of coesite-bearing diamondiferous eclogite from the Udachnaya kimberlite

D Mikhailenko, A Golovin, A Korsakov, S Aulbach… - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
A coesite-bearing diamondiferous eclogite from the Udachnaya kimberlite (Daldyn field,
Siberian craton) has been studied to trace its complex evolution recorded in rock-forming …

Metasomatic interaction of the eutectic Na-and K-bearing carbonate melts with natural garnet lherzolite at 6 GPa and 1100–1200 C: toward carbonatite melt …

A Shatskiy, A Bekhtenova, IV Podborodnikov… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
The range of carbonatite melts in equilibrium with the subcontinental lithospheric mantle
(SCLM) under geothermal conditions is limited by alkali-rich near-eutectic compositions …