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Giuliani A, Phillips D, Woodhead JD, et al. Did diamond-bearing orangeites originate from MARID-veined peridotites in the lithospheric mantle?. Nat Commun. 2015;6:6837doi: 10.1038/ncomms7837.
Giuliani, A., Phillips, D., Woodhead, J. D., Kamenetsky, V. S., Fiorentini, M. L., Maas, R., Soltys, A., & Armstrong, R. A. (2015). Did diamond-bearing orangeites originate from MARID-veined peridotites in the lithospheric mantle?. Nature communications, 66837. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7837
Giuliani, Andrea, et al. "Did diamond-bearing orangeites originate from MARID-veined peridotites in the lithospheric mantle?." Nature communications vol. 6 (2015): 6837. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7837
Giuliani A, Phillips D, Woodhead JD, Kamenetsky VS, Fiorentini ML, Maas R, Soltys A, Armstrong RA. Did diamond-bearing orangeites originate from MARID-veined peridotites in the lithospheric mantle?. Nat Commun. 2015 Apr 17;6:6837. doi: 10.1038/ncomms7837. PMID: 25882074.
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Nat Commun. 2015 Apr 17;6:6837. doi: 10.1038/ncomms7837.

Did diamond-bearing orangeites originate from MARID-veined peridotites in the lithospheric mantle?.

Nature communications

Andrea Giuliani, David Phillips, Jon D Woodhead, Vadim S Kamenetsky, Marco L Fiorentini, Roland Maas, Ashton Soltys, Richard A Armstrong

Affiliations

  1. School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia.
  2. School of Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7001 Tasmania, Australia.
  3. Centre for Exploration Targeting, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia, Australia.
  4. Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Acton, 0200 Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

PMID: 25882074 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7837

Abstract

Kimberlites and orangeites (previously named Group-II kimberlites) are small-volume igneous rocks occurring in diatremes, sills and dykes. They are the main hosts for diamonds and are of scientific importance because they contain fragments of entrained mantle and crustal rocks, thus providing key information about the subcontinental lithosphere. Orangeites are ultrapotassic, H2O and CO2-rich rocks hosting minerals such as phlogopite, olivine, calcite and apatite. The major, trace element and isotopic compositions of orangeites resemble those of intensely metasomatized mantle of the type represented by MARID (mica-amphibole-rutile-ilmenite-diopside) xenoliths. Here we report new data for two MARID xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) and we show that MARID-veined mantle has mineralogical (carbonate-apatite) and geochemical (Sr-Nd-Hf-O isotopes) characteristics compatible with orangeite melt generation from a MARID-rich source. This interpretation is supported by U-Pb zircon ages in MARID xenoliths from the Kimberley kimberlites, which confirm MARID rock formation before orangeite magmatism in the area.

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