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Did diamond-bearing orangeites originate from MARID-veined peridotites in the lithospheric mantle?

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  • Andrea Giuliani

    (School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne)

  • David Phillips

    (School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne)

  • Jon D. Woodhead

    (School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne)

  • Vadim S. Kamenetsky

    (School of Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania)

  • Marco L. Fiorentini

    (Centre for Exploration Targeting, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia)

  • Roland Maas

    (School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne)

  • Ashton Soltys

    (School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne)

  • Richard A. Armstrong

    (Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University)

Abstract

Kimberlites and orangeites (previously named Group-II kimberlites) are small-volume igneous rocks occurring in diatremes, sills and dykes. They are the main hosts for diamonds and are of scientific importance because they contain fragments of entrained mantle and crustal rocks, thus providing key information about the subcontinental lithosphere. Orangeites are ultrapotassic, H2O and CO2-rich rocks hosting minerals such as phlogopite, olivine, calcite and apatite. The major, trace element and isotopic compositions of orangeites resemble those of intensely metasomatized mantle of the type represented by MARID (mica-amphibole-rutile-ilmenite-diopside) xenoliths. Here we report new data for two MARID xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) and we show that MARID-veined mantle has mineralogical (carbonate-apatite) and geochemical (Sr-Nd-Hf-O isotopes) characteristics compatible with orangeite melt generation from a MARID-rich source. This interpretation is supported by U-Pb zircon ages in MARID xenoliths from the Kimberley kimberlites, which confirm MARID rock formation before orangeite magmatism in the area.

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  • Andrea Giuliani & David Phillips & Jon D. Woodhead & Vadim S. Kamenetsky & Marco L. Fiorentini & Roland Maas & Ashton Soltys & Richard A. Armstrong, 2015. "Did diamond-bearing orangeites originate from MARID-veined peridotites in the lithospheric mantle?," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-10, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms7837
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7837
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