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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sulfur extraction via carbonated melts from sulfide-bearing mantle lithologies–implications for deep sulfur cycle and mantle redox

P Chowdhury, R Dasgupta - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Transport of sulfur via mantle-derived partial melts from deep Earth to the surface reservoirs
is a critical step in the deep global sulfur cycle. Given that sulfur is stored mostly in sulfide …