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Aug 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996e%26psl.142..535t&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 142, Issue 3-4, p. 535-551.
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The first ion-probe trace element analyses of clinopyroxene-garnet pairs both included within diamonds and from the eclogite host xenoliths are reported; these diamondiferous eclogites are from the Udachnaya and Mir kimberlite pipes, Yakutia, Russia. The major and trace element analyses of these diamond-inclusion and host-rock pairs are compared in order to determine the relative ages of the diamonds, confirm or deny genetic relationships between the diamonds and the eclogites, evaluate models of eclogite petrogenesis, and model igneous processes in the mantle before, during, and after diamond formation. The most striking aspect of the chemical compositions of the diamond inclusions is the diversity of relationships with their eclogite hosts. No single distinct pattern of variation from diamond inclusion minerals to host minerals is found for all four samples. Garnet and clinopyroxene inclusions in the diamonds from two samples (U-65/3 and U-66/3) have lower Mg#s, lower Mg, and higher Fe contents, and lower LREE than those in the host eclogite. We interpret such variations as due to metasomatism of the host eclogite after diamond formation. One sample, U-41/3 shows enrichment in diamond-inclusion MREE enrichment relative to the eclogite host and may indicate a metasomatic event prior to, or during, diamond formation. Bulanova found striking differences between inclusions taken from within different portions of the very same diamond. Clinopyroxene inclusions taken from the central (early) portions of Yakutian diamonds were lower in Mg# and Mg contents (by up to 25%) than those later inclusions at the rims of diamonds. These trends are parallel to those between diamond inclusions and host eclogites determined for four of the five samples from the present study and may merely represent changing magmatic and/or P-T conditions in the mantle. Garnet trace element compositions are similar in relative proportions, but variable in abundances, between diamond inclusions and host eclogites. This is probably due to the rapid diffusion of trace elements in garnet under mantle temperatures and consequent alteration of the garnet, and not due to juvenile diamonds `locking in' source heterogeneities (c.f.,). Trace element compositions of clinopyroxenes included in diamonds are generally similar to those in the host eclogite. However, one host clinopyroxene does show enrichment in the LREE compared to that in the inclusion and may be attributed to mantle metasomatism, not related to kimberlite transport. In another eclogite, M-46, the host clinopyroxene is depleted in the LREE and Fe, and enriched in the HREE and Mg, relative to the inclusion and is consistent with partial melting of the eclogite subsequent to diamond formation. Sm/Nd ratios in clinopyroxenes appear to be little affected by these processes for most samples, allowing Sm-Nd isotopic studies to yield important information about ancient protoliths. Eclogitic mineral inclusions in Yakutian diamonds appear consanguineous with the diamonds, a contention supported by the observations of Bulanova. Therefore, Re-Os whole-rock and Sm/Nd clinopyroxene age determinations of the Udachnaya eclogites also yield the time of diamond formation, approximately 2.9 Ga.
Crozaz Ghislaine
Snyder Gregory A.
Sobolev Nikolai V.
Sobolev Vladimir N.
Taylor Lawrence A.
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