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Kimberlites and Their Deep Cargo: Mineralogy, Geochronology and Isotope Chemistry
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Kimberlites and Their Deep Cargo: Mineralogy, Geochronology and Isotope Chemistry

A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 5466

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Anastasia Gibsher

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1. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
2. Geo-Scientific Research Enterprise ALROSA (PJSC), Mirny, Russia
Interests: mantle geochemistry; mantle xenoliths; diamond; geochronology
Dr. Vladimir Malkovets

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1. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
2. Geo-Scientific Research Enterprise ALROSA (PJSC), Mirny, Russia
Interests: lithospheric mantle; diamond; pyrope; kimberlite indicator minerals; mantle metasomatism; diamond inclusions

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce a Special Issue of Minerals entitled “Kimberlites and Their Deep Cargo: Mineralogy, Geochronology, and Isotope Chemistry”. Since their discovery more than two centuries ago, interest in kimberlites has not diminished over the years. Kimberlite eruptions bring material from the lithosphere/asthenosphere boundary (~250 km and sometimes even deeper) to the uppermost parts of the Earth’s crust. Erupting through the Archean cratons kimberlites, they thus represent a unique archive of information on geological processes for the span of time from circa 3.6 Ga until the time of eruption. However, despite the long interest in kimberlites and their deep cargo, there is still no detailed model explaining the difference in their diamond contents. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together experimental, mineralogical, and isotopic studies to provide new insights on the formation and evolution of cratonic lithosphere and diamonds.

For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of papers and reviews of mineralogical, geochemical, and isotopic studies on the cratonic mantle, crustal and mantle xenoliths, diamonds, kimberlites, and kimberlite indicator minerals. We welcome fundamental and experimental studies to contribute to a better understanding of cratonic composition, evolution, thermal regime, and the processes that form and destroy diamonds.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the keywords listed below.

Dr. Anastasia Gibsher
Dr. Vladimir Malkovets
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Minerals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • craton
  • lithosphere
  • mantle
  • kimberlite
  • diamond
  • mantle xenoliths
  • kimberlite indicator minerals

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Regeneration Growth as One of the Principal Stages of Diamond Crystallogenesis
by Igor V. Klepikov, Evgeny A. Vasilev and Anton V. Antonov
Minerals 2022, 12(3), 327; https://doi.org/10.3390/min12030327 - 06 Mar 2022
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Revealing the internal structure of diamonds is key to understanding the general regularities of crystal growth and dissolution. This paper presents and summarizes data on the internal structure of diamonds of different morphological types, colors and defect-impurity composition. In order to provide a [...] Read more.
Revealing the internal structure of diamonds is key to understanding the general regularities of crystal growth and dissolution. This paper presents and summarizes data on the internal structure of diamonds of different morphological types, colors and defect-impurity composition. In order to provide a comprehensive explanation of the stages of diamond growth, crystals and plates were observed, and panchromatic cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence techniques were applied. This article considers the mechanism of tangential growth from existing surfaces (regeneration growth) as an intermediate stage between normal and tangential crystal growth. The regeneration growth is very fast due to the absence of the limiting stage-nucleation of a new atomic layer. Cuboid diamonds were refaceted to stepped octahedrons by the regeneration growth mechanism. A schematic model of crystal habit transformation due to regeneration growth explains the internal structure of crystals in connection with their morphology and thermal history. The main variants of regeneration stage and its morphological manifestations were demonstrated. Most diamonds pass through the regeneration stage, and in many cases, it was a stage of growth termination. Full article
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Micro-Raman Spectroscopy Assessment of Chemical Compounds of Mantle Clinopyroxenes
by Anastasiya D. Kalugina and Dmitry A. Zedgenizov
Minerals 2020, 10(12), 1084; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10121084 - 02 Dec 2020
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The composition of clinopyroxenes is indicative for chemical and physical properties of mantle substrates. In this study, we present the results of Raman spectroscopy examination of clinopyroxene inclusions in natural diamonds (n = 51) and clinopyroxenes from mantle xenoliths of peridotites and eclogites [...] Read more.
The composition of clinopyroxenes is indicative for chemical and physical properties of mantle substrates. In this study, we present the results of Raman spectroscopy examination of clinopyroxene inclusions in natural diamonds (n = 51) and clinopyroxenes from mantle xenoliths of peridotites and eclogites from kimberlites (n = 28). The chemical composition of studied clinopyroxenes shows wide variations indicating their origin in different mantle lithologies. All clinopyroxenes have intense Raman modes corresponding to metal-oxygen translation (~300–500 cm−1), stretching vibrations of bridging O-Si-Obr (ν11~670 cm−1), and nonbridging atoms O-Si-Onbr (ν16~1000 cm−1). The peak position of the stretching vibration mode (ν11) for the studied clinopyroxenes varies in a wide range (23 cm−1) and generally correlates with their chemical composition and reflects the diopside-jadeite heterovalent isomorphism. These correlations may be used for rough estimation of these compounds using the non-destructive Raman spectroscopy technique. Full article
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