C, N, AR and He study of impact diamonds from Ebeliakh alluvial deposits and Popigai crater.

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Sep 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998m%26ps...33..985s&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 985-992

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Nineteen diamond aggregate specimens (1-2 mm size) from impactites of Popigai crater and five diamond samples (5-7 mm size) from Ebeliakh river placers were studied. Our investigations indicate that samples from Ebeliakh were formed in an impact event with exception of one specimen (Y7). The carbon isotopic composition of diamonds from Popigai varies within the previously reported limits (d13C -8 to -22=E4) whereas diamonds from Ebeliakh placers show heavier values of d13C (-7 to -10=E4). All the specimens studied contain very low amounts of nitrogen, mostly <20 ppm, but a few up to 60 ppm were detected. For specimens, where the quantity of nitrogen allowed reliable analysis, d15N values were found to be in the range of -3.9=E4 to +11.9=E4. On the basis of combined Ar and N study it was concluded that impact diamonds studied here can be a mixture of at least two types of gas carriers (e.g. different diamond components). A possible explanation would be involvement of CVD process or diamond growth in the impact melt in addition to the direct graphite-diamond shock transformation. The d13C distributions and different N-36Ar correlations have indicated the difference between impact diamonds from Ebeliakh and diamonds extracted from Popigai crater. This could be explained by the existence of different diamond populations formed during the Popigai impact event. On the other hand Ebeliakh diamonds could have resulted from a separate impact event to Popigai and an alternative crater is yet to be found.

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