Despite general agreement amongst kimberlite researchers on many of the basic characteristics of kimberlite, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) still considers kimberlite undefined. Furthermore, a fundamental and crucially important characteristic of kimberlite is still fiercely debated: the composition of its primary magma. Two distinct schools of thought have emerged to explain the composition of kimberlite magma. The first favors a volatile-rich ultramafic silicate melt while the other suggests a silico-carbonatite parental melt. Kimberlite can be described by two principle components: mantle-derived carbonate and xenocrystic olivine. Despite this prevalence of carbonate and the near-absence of magmatic olivine, the pa...
In this thesis I present petrographic and geochemical data for six aphanitic kimberlite samples fro...
Kimberlites are one of the rarest and most volumetrically insignificant igneous rocks, which are der...
This study of the hypabyssal kimberlite with particularly fresh olivine from the Palaeogene Koala pi...
Kimberlites are the surface manifestation of deeply-derived (>150 km) and rapidly ascended magmas. F...
The aim of this thesis is to get a better understanding of the composition of a primary melt. Kimber...
Kimberlites are extremely enriched in the incompatible elements and are therefore important in disc...
An ultrabasic/ultramafic composition of kimberlite magmas is difficult to reconcile with existing mo...
Kimberlite magmas are in many aspects unusual compared to other terrestrial magmatic liquids. They a...
International audienceTwo types of olivine occur in kimberlites from Greenland, Canada and southern ...
Quantifying the compositional evolution of mantle-derived melts from source to surface is fundamenta...
This study aims at understanding parental melt compositions and evolutionary history of mantle-deriv...
The origin of alkali carbonates and chlorides in the groundmass of unaltered Udachnaya-East kimberli...
Kimberlites, the deepest terrestrial magmas and the principal source of diamonds, must have low visc...
In this thesis I present petrographic and geochemical data for six aphanitic kimberlite samples fro...
Kimberlites are one of the rarest and most volumetrically insignificant igneous rocks, which are der...
This study of the hypabyssal kimberlite with particularly fresh olivine from the Palaeogene Koala pi...
Kimberlites are the surface manifestation of deeply-derived (>150 km) and rapidly ascended magmas. F...
The aim of this thesis is to get a better understanding of the composition of a primary melt. Kimber...
Kimberlites are extremely enriched in the incompatible elements and are therefore important in disc...
An ultrabasic/ultramafic composition of kimberlite magmas is difficult to reconcile with existing mo...
Kimberlite magmas are in many aspects unusual compared to other terrestrial magmatic liquids. They a...
International audienceTwo types of olivine occur in kimberlites from Greenland, Canada and southern ...
Quantifying the compositional evolution of mantle-derived melts from source to surface is fundamenta...
This study aims at understanding parental melt compositions and evolutionary history of mantle-deriv...
The origin of alkali carbonates and chlorides in the groundmass of unaltered Udachnaya-East kimberli...
Kimberlites, the deepest terrestrial magmas and the principal source of diamonds, must have low visc...
In this thesis I present petrographic and geochemical data for six aphanitic kimberlite samples fro...
Kimberlites are one of the rarest and most volumetrically insignificant igneous rocks, which are der...
This study of the hypabyssal kimberlite with particularly fresh olivine from the Palaeogene Koala pi...