An Alternative Scenario on the Origin of Ultra-High Pressure (UHP) and Super-Reduced (SuR) Minerals in Ophiolitic Chromitites: A Case Study from the Mercedita Deposit (Eastern Cuba)

Not all moissanites are created equal: New constraints on moissanite from metamorphic rocks of Bulgaria

(2018) P. Machev et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diamonds and other unusual minerals from peridotites of the Myitkyina ophiolite, Myanmar

(2018) Yanhong Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Moissanite (SiC) with metal-silicide and silicon inclusions from tuff of Israel: Raman spectroscopy and electron microscope studies

(2018) Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya et al.   LITHOS

Super-reduced mineral assemblages in "ophiolitic" chromitites and peridotites: the view from Mount Carmel

(2017) Qing Xiong et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

Fluids are bound to be involved in the formation of ophiolitic chromite deposits

(2017) Zdeněk Johan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

Trace-element geochemistry of transform-fault serpentinite in high-pressure subduction mélanges (eastern Cuba): implications for subduction initiation

(2017) J. Cárdenas-Párraga et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Ancient xenocrystic zircon in young volcanic rocks of the southern Lesser Antilles island arc

(2017) Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte et al.   LITHOS

The recycling of chromitites in ophiolites from southwestern North America

(2017) José M. González-Jiménez et al.   LITHOS

Precise determination of the phase boundary between coesite and stishovite in SiO 2

(2017) Shigeaki Ono et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Origin and significance of diamonds and other exotic minerals in the Dingqing ophiolite peridotites, eastern Bangong-Nujiang suture zone, Tibet

(2017) Fahui Xiong et al.   Lithosphere

Cold plumes trigger contamination of oceanic mantle wedges with continental crust-derived sediments: Evidence from chromitite zircon grains of eastern Cuban ophiolites

(2017) J.A. Proenza et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Diamonds and Other Exotic Minerals Recovered from Peridotites of the Dangqiong Ophiolite, Western Yarlung-Zangbo Suture Zone, Tibet

(2016) XIONG Fahui et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

Discovery of in situ super-reducing, ultrahigh-pressure phases in the Luobusa ophiolitic chromitites, Tibet: New insights into the deep upper mantle and mantle transition zone

(2016) Ru Y. Zhang et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Ultra-reducing conditions in average mantle peridotites and in podiform chromitites: a thermodynamic model for moissanite (SiC) formation

(2016) Anastasia Golubkova et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Recycling and transport of continental material through the mantle wedge above subduction zones: A Caribbean example

(2016) Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle Recycling: Transition Zone Metamorphism of Tibetan Ophiolitic Peridotites and its Tectonic Implications

(2016) W. L. Griffin et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Experimental constraints on the formation of the Tibetan podiform chromitites

(2016) Yao Wu et al.   LITHOS

Formation and modification of chromitites in the mantle

(2016) Shoji Arai et al.   LITHOS

Diamond Discovered in High-Al Chromitites of the Sartohay Ophiolite, Xinjiang Province, China

(2015) TIAN Yazhou et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

Tibetan chromitites: Excavating the slab graveyard

(2015) Nicole M. McGowan et al.   GEOLOGY

The origin and significance of crustal minerals in ophiolitic chromitites and peridotites

(2015) Paul T. Robinson et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Origin of podiform chromitite, a new model based on the Luobusa ophiolite, Tibet

(2015) Fahui Xiong et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Origin of ultrahigh pressure and highly reduced minerals in podiform chromitites and associated mantle peridotites of the Luobusa ophiolite, Tibet

(2015) XiangZhen Xu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Diamonds, native elements and metal alloys from chromitites of the Ray-Iz ophiolite of the Polar Urals

(2015) Jingsui Yang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Messengers from the deep: Fossil wadsleyite-chromite microstructures from the Mantle Transition Zone

(2015) Takako Satsukawa et al.   Scientific Reports

Diamonds in Ophiolites

(2014) J.-S. Yang et al.   Elements

Compositions of chromite, associated minerals, and parental magmas of podiform chromite deposits: The role of slab contamination of asthenospheric melts in suprasubduction zone environments

(2014) Mei-Fu Zhou et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Did the Turonian–Coniacian plume pulse trigger subduction initiation in the Northern Caribbean? Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Moa-Baracoa metamorphic sole (eastern Cuba)

(2014) C. Lázaro et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Platinum group minerals (PGM) in the Falcondo Ni-laterite deposit, Loma Caribe peridotite (Dominican Republic)

(2014) Thomas Aiglsperger et al.   MINERALIUM DEPOSITA

Natural moissanite (SiC) – a low temperature mineral formed from highly fractionated ultra-reducing COH-fluids

(2014) Max W Schmidt et al.   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Conversion of low-pressure chromitites to ultrahigh-pressure chromitites by deep recycling: A good inference

(2013) Shoji Arai   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Raman spectrum of diopside: a comparison between ab initio calculated and experimentally measured frequencies

(2012) Mauro Prencipe et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

Podiform chromitite classification revisited: A comparison of discordant and concordant chromitite pods from Wadi Hilti, northern Oman ophiolite

(2012) Makoto Miura et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Mineralogy of the lower mantle: A review of ‘super-deep’ mineral inclusions in diamond

(2011) Felix Kaminsky   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Moissanite (SiC) from kimberlites: Polytypes, trace elements, inclusions and speculations on origin

(2011) A.A. Shiryaev et al.   LITHOS

Timing of subduction and exhumation in a subduction channel: Evidence from slab melts from La Corea Mélange (eastern Cuba)

(2011) I.F. Blanco-Quintero et al.   LITHOS

High-Cr and high-Al chromitites from the Sagua de Tánamo district, Mayarí-Cristal ophiolitic massif (eastern Cuba): Constraints on their origin from mineralogy and geochemistry of chromian spinel and platinum-group elements

(2011) J.M. González-Jiménez et al.   LITHOS

Mössbauer spectroscopy studies of the valence state of iron in chromite from the Luobusa massif of Tibet: implications for a highly reduced deep mantle

(2010) T. RUSKOV et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Structure of the accretionary prism, and the evolution of the Paleogene northern Caribbean subduction zone in the region of Camagüey, Cuba

(2009) Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

The carbon isotope composition of natural SiC (moissanite) from the Earth's mantle: New discoveries from ophiolites

(2009) Robert B. Trumbull et al.   LITHOS

High-pressure highly reduced nitrides and oxides from chromitite of a Tibetan ophiolite

(2009) L. F. Dobrzhinetskaya et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleogene Foredeep Basin Deposits of North-Central Cuba: A Record of Arc-Continent Collision between the Caribbean and North American Plates

(2008) Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Latest Cretaceous Collision/Accretion between the Caribbean Plate and Caribeana: Origin of Metamorphic Terranes in the Greater Antilles

(2008) Antonio García-Casco et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Fifty-five-million-year history of oceanic subduction and exhumation at the northern edge of the Caribbean plate (Sierra del Convento mélange, Cuba)

(2008) C. LÁZARO et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Isotopic heterogeneity in synthetic and natural silicon carbide

(2008) A.A. Shiryaev et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS

Coesite and clinopyroxene exsolution lamellae in chromites: In-situ ultrahigh-pressure evidence from podiform chromitites in the Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet

(2008) Shinji Yamamoto et al.   LITHOS

Moissanite in serpentinite from the Dabie Mountains in China

(2008) Shutong Xu et al.   MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE