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About half the diamonds studied from the Cenozoic placer deposits along the Namibian coast belong to the peridotitic suite. The peridotitic mantle source is heterogeneous ranging from lherzolitic to strongly Ca depleted (down to 0.24 wt.% CaO in garnet) and shows large variations in Cr/Al ratio, illustrated by very low to very high Cr 2O 3 contents in garnet (2.6–17.3 wt.%). The Cr-rich end of this range includes exceptionally high Cr 2O 3 contents in Mg-chromite (70.7 wt.%) and clinopyroxene (3.6 wt.%). Garnet-olivine thermometry appears to indicate two groups, one that equilibrated at temperatures between 1200 and 1220°C and a second between 960 and 1100°C. Combined estimates of pressure and temperature based on garnet-orthopyroxene pairs indicate a large variance in geothermal gradients, corresponding to 38–42 mW/m 2 surface heat flow. The trace-element composition of peridotitic garnet inclusions (determined by SIMS) also indicates large diversity. Two principal groups, corresponding to different styles of metasomatic source enrichment, are recognized. The first group ranges from extremely LREEN-depleted patterns, through trough-shaped REEN to sinusoidal patterns with the position of the first peak gradually moving from the LREEN to the MREEN. This series of REE patterns is interpreted to reflect a range of metasomatic agents with decreasing LREE/HREE. Only in the case of the two garnets with REEN peaking at Sm–Eu is this process connected with enrichment in Zr, without significant introduction of Y and Ti. The metasomatism responsible is interpreted as reflecting percolation of CHO-fluids through harzburgite under sub-solidus conditions. A second group of garnets shows an increase from LREEN–MREEN and almost flat (lherzolitic garnet) to moderately declining MREEN–HREEN at super-chondritic levels. This second style of metasomatism is caused by an agent carrying HFSE and showing only moderate enrichment in LREE over HREE, which points towards silicate melts. 相似文献
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Mineral inclusions recovered from 100 diamonds from the A154 South kimberlite (Diavik Diamond Mines, Central Slave Craton, Canada) indicate largely peridotitic diamond sources (83%), with a minor (12%) eclogitic component. Inclusions of ferropericlase (4%) and diamond in diamond (1%) represent “undetermined” parageneses. Compared to inclusions in diamonds from the Kaapvaal Craton, overall higher CaO contents (2.6 to 6.0 wt.%) of harzburgitic garnets and lower Mg-numbers (90.6 to 93.6) of olivines indicate diamond formation in a chemically less depleted environment. Peridotitic diamonds at A154 South formed in an exceptionally Zn-rich environment, with olivine inclusions containing more than twice the value (of 52 ppm) established for normal mantle olivine. Harzburgitic garnet inclusions generally have sinusoidal rare earth element (REEN) patterns, enriched in LREE and depleted in HREE. A single analyzed lherzolitic garnet is re-enriched in middle to heavy REE resulting in a “normal” REEN pattern. Two of the harzburgitic garnets have “transitional” REEN patterns, broadly similar to that of the lherzolitic garnet. Eclogitic garnet inclusions have normal REEN patterns similar to eclogitic garnets worldwide but at lower REE concentrations. Carbon isotopic values (δ13C) range from − 10.5‰ to + 0.7‰, with 94% of diamonds falling between − 6.3‰ and − 4.0‰. Nitrogen concentrations range from below detection (< 10 ppm) to 3800 ppm and aggregation states cover the entire spectrum from poorly aggregated (Type IaA) to fully aggregated (Type IaB). Diamonds without evidence of previous plastic deformation (which may have accelerated nitrogen aggregation) typically have < 25% of their nitrogen in the fully aggregated B-centres. Assuming diamond formation beneath the Central Slave to have occurred in the Archean [Westerlund, K.J., Shirey, S.B., Richardson, S.H., Gurney, J.J., Harris, J.W., 2003b. Re–Os systematics of diamond inclusion sulfides from the Panda kimberlite, Slave craton. VIIIth International Kimberlite Conference, Victoria, Canada, Extended Abstracts, 5p.], such low aggregation states indicate mantle residence at fairly low temperatures (< 1100 °C). Geothermometry based on non-touching inclusion pairs, however, indicates diamond formation at temperatures around 1200 °C. To reconcile inclusion and nitrogen based temperature estimates, cooling by about 100–200 °C shortly after diamond formation is required. 相似文献
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Trace element concentrations in the four principal peridotitic silicate phases (garnet, olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene)
included in diamonds from Akwatia (Birim Field, Ghana) were determined using SIMS. Incompatible trace elements are hosted
in garnet and clinopyroxene except for Sr which is equally distributed between orthopyroxene and garnet in harzburgitic paragenesis
diamonds. The separation between lherzolitic and harzburgitic inclusion parageneses, which is commonly made using compositional
fields for garnets in a CaO versus Cr 2O 3 diagram, is also apparent from the Ti and Sr contents in both olivine and garnet. Titanium is much higher in the lherzolitic
and Sr in the harzburgitic inclusions. Chondrite normalised REE patterns of lherzolitic garnets are enriched (10–20 times
chondrite) in HREE (La N/Yb N = 0.02–0.06) while harzburgitic garnets have sinusoidal REE N patterns, with the highest concentrations for Ce and Nd (2–8 times chondritic) and a minimum at Ho (0.2–0.7 times chondritic).
Clinopyroxene inclusions show negative slopes with La enrichment 10–100 times chondritic and low Lu (0.1–1 times chondritic).
Both a lherzolitic and a harzburgitic garnet with very high knorringite contents (14 and 21 wt% Cr 2O 3 respectively) could be readily distinguished from other garnets of their parageneses by much higher levels of LREE enrichment.
The REE patterns for calculated melt compositions from lherzolitic garnet inclusions fall into the compositional field for
kimberlitic-lamproitic and carbonatitic melts. Much more strongly fractionated REE patterns calculated from harzburgitic garnets,
and low concentrations in Ti, Y, Zr, and Hf, differ significantly from known alkaline and carbonatitic melts and require a
different agent. Equilibration temperatures for harzburgitic inclusions are generally below the C-H-O solidus of their paragenesis,
those of lherzolitic inclusions are above. Crystallisation of harzburgitic diamonds from CO 2-bearing melts or fluids may thus be excluded. Diamond inclusion chemistry and mineralogy also is inconsistent with known
examples of metasomatism by H 2O-rich melts. We therefore favour diamond precipitation by oxidation of CH 4-rich fluids with highly fractionated trace element patterns which are possibly due to “chromatographic” fractionation processes.
Received: 27 January 1996 / Accepted: 5 May 1997 相似文献
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Peridotitic inclusions in alluvial diamonds from the Kankan region of Guinea in West Africa are mainly of lherzolitic paragenesis.
Nevertheless, extreme Cr 2O 3 contents (max. 17 wt%) in some of the exclusively lherzolitic garnets document that the diamond source experienced a previous
stage of melt extraction in the spinel stability field. This initial depletion was followed by at least two metasomatic stages:
(1) enrichment of LREE and Sr and (2) introduction mainly of MREE–HREE and other HFSE (Ti, Y, Zr, Hf). The Ti- and HFSE-poor
character of stage (1) points towards a CHO-rich fluid or carbonatitic melt, the high HFSE in stage (2) favour silicate melts
as enriching agent. Eclogitic inclusions are derived from a large depth interval ranging from the lithosphere through the
asthenosphere into the transition zone. The occurrence of negative Eu anomalies in garnet and clinopyroxene from both lithosphere
and transition zone suggests a possible relationship to subducted oceanic crust. Lithospheric eclogitic inclusions are derived
from heterogeneous sources, that may broadly be divided into a low-Ca group with LREE depleted trace element patterns and
a high-Ca group representing a source with negative LREE–HREE slope that is moderately enriched in incompatible elements relative
to primitive mantle. High-Ca inclusions of majoritic paragenesis are significantly more enriched in incompatible elements,
such as in Sr and LREE. Calculated whole rock compositions require metasomatic enrichment even if a derivation from MORB is
assumed.
Received: 26 January 2000 / Accepted: 18 May 2000 相似文献
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The Orapa and Jwaneng kimberlites are located along the western margin of the Kalahari Craton and the prevalence of eclogitic over peridotitic diamonds in both mines has recently been linked to lower P-wave velocities in the deep mantle lithosphere (relative to the bulk of the craton) to suggest a diamond formation event prompted by mid-Proterozoic growth and modification of preexisting Archean lithosphere (Shirey et al. 2002). Here we study peridotitic diamonds from both mines, with an emphasis on the style of metasomatic source enrichment, to evaluate their relationship with this major eclogitic diamond formation event. In their major element chemistry, the peridotitic inclusions compare well with a world-wide database but reveal differences to diamond sources located in the interior of the Western Terrane of the Kaapvaal block, where the classical mines in the Kimberley region are located. The most striking difference is the relative paucity of low-Ca (<2 wt% CaO in garnet) harzburgites and a low ratio of harzburgitic to lherzolitic garnets (2:1). This suggests that lithospheric mantle accreted to the rim of the Zimbabwe and Kaapvaal blocks was overall chemically less depleted. Alternatively, this more fertile signature may be assigned to stronger metasomatic re-enrichment but the trace element signature of garnet inclusions is not in favor of strong enrichment in major elements. For both mines the majority of lherzolitic and harzburgitic garnet inclusions are characterized by moderately sinusoidal REE N patterns and low Ti, Zr and Y contents, indicative of a metasomatic agent with very high LREE/HREE and low HFSE. This is consistent with metasomatism by a CHO-fluid or, as modeled by Burgess and Harte ( 2003), a highly fractionated, low-volume silicate melt from the MORB-source. In both cases, changes in the major element chemistry of the affected rocks will be limited. In a few garnets from Orapa preferential MREE enrichment is observed, suggesting that the percolating fluid/melt fractionated a LREE-phyllic phase (such as crichtonite). The overall moderate degree of metasomatism reflected by the inclusion chemistry is in stark contrast to lithospheric sections for Orapa and Jwaneng based on mantle xenocrysts and xenoliths, revealing extensive mantle metasomatism (Griffin et al. 2003). This suggests that the formation of peridotitic diamonds predates the intensive modification of the subcratonic lithosphere during Proterozoic rifting and compression, implying that diamonds may survive major tectonothermal events.Editorial responsibility: J. Hoefs 相似文献
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Twenty-five diamonds recovered from 21 diamondiferous peridotitic micro-xenoliths from the A154 South and North kimberlite
pipes at Diavik (Slave Craton) match the general peridotitic diamond production at this mine with respect to colour, carbon
isotopic composition, and nitrogen concentrations and aggregation states. Based on garnet compositions, the majority of the
diamondiferous microxenoliths is lherzolitic (G9) in paragenesis, in stark contrast to a predominantly harzburgitic (G10)
inclusion paragenesis for the general diamond production. For garnet inclusions in diamonds from A154 South, the lherzolitic
paragenesis, compared to the harzburgitic paragenesis, is distinctly lower in Cr content. For microxenolith garnets, however,
Cr contents for garnets of both the parageneses are similar and match those of the harzburgitic inclusion garnets. Assuming
that the microxenolith diamonds reflect a sample of the general diamond population, the abundant Cr-rich lherzolitic garnets
formed via metasomatic overprinting of original harzburgitic diamond sources subsequent to diamond formation, conversion of
original harzburgitic diamond sources occurred in the course of metasomatic overprint re-fertilization. Metasomatic overprinting
after diamond formation is supported by the finding of a highly magnesian olivine inclusion (Fo 95) in a microxenolith diamond that clearly formed in a much more depleted environment than indicated by the composition of
its microxenolith host. Chondrite normalized REE patterns of microxenolith garnets are predominantly sinusoidal, similar to
observations for inclusion garnets. Sinusoidal REE N patterns are interpreted to indicate a relatively mild metasomatic overprint through a highly fractionated (very high LREE/HREE)
fluid. The predominance of such patterns may explain why the proposed metasomatic conversion of harzburgite to lherzolite
appears to have had no destructive effect on diamond content.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Trace element concentrations of peridotitic garnet inclusions in diamonds from two Chinese kimberlite pipes were determined
using the ion microprobe. Garnet xenocrysts from the same two kimberlite pipes were also analyzed for comparison. In contrast
to their extremely refractory major element compositions, all harzburgitic garnets showed enrichment in light rare earth elements
(REE) relative to chondrite, resulting in sinuous REE patterns. Both normal and sinuous REE patterns were observed from the
lherzolitic garnets. Concentrations of REE in garnets changed significantly from diamond to diamond and no specific correlations
were observed with their major element compositions. Analyses of randomly selected two to three points within every grain
of a large number of garnet inclusions by the ion microprobe demonstrated that there was no evident compositional heterogeneity,
and multiple grains of one phase from a single diamond host also exhibit very similar compositions. This implies that the
trace element heterogeneity within one grain or among multiple inclusions from the same diamond host, as reported from Siberian
diamonds, is not a common feature for these Chinese diamonds. Concentrations of Na, Ti, and Zr tend to decrease when garnets
become more refractory, but variations of Sr and Li are more complex. Compositions rich in light REE and relatively poor in
high field strength elements (HFSE) of the harzburgitic garnet inclusions in diamonds are generally consistent with metasomatism
by carbonatite melts. The trace element features observed from the garnet inclusions in Chinese diamonds may be caused by
carbonatite melt infiltration and partial melt extraction. Spatial and temporal gradients in melt/rock ratio and temperature
are the main reasons for the large variations of REE patterns and other trace element concentrations.
Received: 27 April 1999 / Accepted: 1 March 2000 相似文献
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The diamond population from the Jagersfontein kimberlite is characterized by a high abundance of eclogitic, besides peridotitic
and a small group of websteritic diamonds. The majority of inclusions indicate that the diamonds are formed in the subcratonic
lithospheric mantle. Inclusions of the eclogitic paragenesis, which generally have a wide compositional range, include two
groups of eclogitic garnets (high and low Ca) which are also distinct in their rare earth element composition. Within the
eclogitic and websteritic suite, diamonds with inclusions of majoritic garnets were found, which provide evidence for their
formation within the asthenosphere and transition zone. Unlike the lithospheric garnets all majoritic garnet inclusions show
negative Eu-anomalies. A narrow range of isotopically light carbon compositions (δ 13C −17 to −24 ‰) of the host diamonds suggests that diamond formation in the sublithospheric mantle is principally different
to that in the lithosphere. Direct conversion from graphite in a subducting slab appears to be the main mechanism responsible
for diamond formation in this part of the Earth’s mantle beneath the Kaapvaal Craton. The peridotitic inclusion suite at Jagersfontein
is similar to other diamond deposits on the Kaapvaal Craton and characterized by harzburgitic to low-Ca harzburgitic compositions. 相似文献
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Ar–Ar age measurements are reported for selected eclogitic clinopyroxene and garnet inclusions in Orapa diamonds and clinopyroxene inclusions in Venetia diamonds. Laser drilling of encapsulated clinopyroxene inclusions within Venetia diamonds released a maximum of 3% of the total 40Ar, indicating little diffusive transfer and storage of radiogenic 40Ar at the diamond–inclusion boundary. Apparent ages obtained during stepped heating of three diamonds are consistent with diamond crystallisation occurring just prior to the kimberlite eruption 520 Ma ago. Stepped heating of three clinopyroxene-bearing Orapa diamonds gave ages of 906–1032 Ma, significantly above the eruption age, but consistent with previously determined isotopic ages. A few higher apparent ages hint at the presence an older generation of Orapa diamonds that formed >2500 Ma ago. Orapa garnets also contain measurable K contents, and record a range of ages between 1000 and 2500 Ma. The old apparent ages and lack of significant interface 40Ar released by the laser probe, suggests that pre-eruption radiogenic 40Ar and mantle-derived 40Ar components are trapped in microinclusions within the pyroxene and garnet inclusions. 相似文献
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Cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging of polished sections of a diamond from the Guaniamo region of Venezuela suggests a history of the diamond involving two periods of growth separated by a period of resorption and possibly brittle deformation. In situ electron probe analysis of multiple eclogitic garnet inclusions reveals a correlation between garnet composition and location in the stone. An early-formed garnet in the diamond core has higher Ca/(Ca+Mg) and lower Mg/(Mg+Fe) values than later garnets associated with the second period of diamond growth. This variation conforms to an extensive trend of variation in the suite of eclogitic garnets extracted from Venezuelan diamonds. The diamond is zoned in carbon isotope composition (in situ secondary ion mass spectrometry, SIMS, data). The core compositions ( δ13C PDB), corresponding to the first stage of growth, average −17.7‰. The second period of growth is apparently in two sub-sets of CL zones with mean values of −13.0‰ and −7.9‰. Nitrogen contents of diamond are low (30–300 atomic ppm) and do not correlate with carbon isotope composition. Oxygen isotope ratios of the garnet inclusions are elevated substantially above those expected for “common mantle”; δ18O VSMOW of early garnet is approximately +10.5‰ and two late garnets average +8.8‰. The evolutionary trend of magnesium enrichment in garnet is unlikely to represent igneous fractionation. The stable isotope data are consistent with diamond formation in subducted meta-basic rocks that had interacted with sea water at low temperatures at or near the sea floor and contained a substantial biogenic carbon component. During or following subduction, diamonds continued to form in an evolving system that was progressively modified by interaction with mantle material. 相似文献
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