Carbon and Nitrogen in Mantle-Derived Diamonds

Geochronology of Diamonds

(2022) Karen V. Smit et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Morphology of Monocrystalline Diamond and its Inclusions

(2022) Jeff W. Harris et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Experimental Petrology Applied to Natural Diamond Growth

(2022) Robert W. Luth et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Non-cratonic Diamonds from UHP Metamorphic Terranes, Ophiolites and Volcanic Sources

(2022) Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

A Review of the Geology of Global Diamond Mines and Deposits

(2022) Bruce A. Kjarsgaard et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Mineral Inclusions in Lithospheric Diamonds

(2022) Thomas Stachel et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Geochemistry of Silicate and Oxide Inclusions in Sublithospheric Diamonds

(2022) Michael J. Walter et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Pressure and Temperature Data for Diamonds

(2022) Paolo Nimis   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Diamond Spectroscopy, Defect Centers, Color, and Treatments

(2022) Ben L. Green et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Polycrystalline Diamonds from Kimberlites: Snapshots of Rapid and Episodic Diamond Formation in the Lithospheric Mantle

(2022) Dorrit E. Jacob et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Fluid Inclusions in Fibrous Diamonds

(2022) Yaakov Weiss et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Deep carbon through time: Earth’s diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle

(2020) D. Howell et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Hydrothermal 15N15N abundances constrain the origins of mantle nitrogen

(2020) J. Labidi et al.   NATURE

Pyroxene does not always preserve its source hydrogen concentration: Clues from some peridotite xenoliths

(2020) Yong-Feng Wang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The lithospheric-to-lower-mantle carbon cycle recorded in superdeep diamonds

(2020) M. E. Regier et al.   NATURE

Natural Graphite Cuboids

(2019) Andrey Korsakov et al.   Minerals

Experimental carbonatite/graphite carbon isotope fractionation and carbonate/graphite geothermometry

(2019) Nico Kueter et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sulfur isotopes in diamonds reveal differences in continent construction

(2019) Karen V. Smit et al.   SCIENCE

Nitrogen in the Earth: abundance and transport

(2019) Bjorn Mysen   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

U-Th/He systematics of fluid-rich ‘fibrous’ diamonds – Evidence for pre- and syn-kimberlite eruption ages

(2019) Suzette Timmerman et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Diamond isotope compositions indicate altered igneous oceanic crust dominates deep carbon recycling

(2019) Kan Li et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evaluating mechanisms for eclogitic diamond growth: An example from Zimmi Neoproterozoic diamonds (West African craton)

(2019) Karen V. Smit et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Subducting carbon

(2019) Terry Plank et al.   NATURE

Kinetic carbon isotope fractionation links graphite and diamond precipitation to reduced fluid sources

(2019) Nico Kueter et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diamond ages from Victor (Superior Craton): Intra-mantle cycling of volatiles (C, N, S) during supercontinent reorganisation

(2018) S. Aulbach et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diffusion of helium, hydrogen and deuterium in diamond: Experiment, theory and geochemical applications

(2018) D.J. Cherniak et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Diamonds from Orapa Mine show a clear subduction signature in SIMS stable isotope data

(2018) Ingrid L. Chinn et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

The growth of lithospheric diamonds

(2018) Hélène Bureau et al.   Science Advances

Mass transfer in the Earth’s interior: fluid-melt interaction in aluminosilicate–C–O–H–N systems at high pressure and temperature under oxidizing conditions

(2018) Bjorn Mysen   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Experimental determination of equilibrium CH4–CO2–CO carbon isotope fractionation factors (300–1200 °C)

(2018) Nico Kueter et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evidence for large scale fractionation of carbon isotopes and of nitrogen impurity during crystallization of gem quality cubic diamonds from placers of North Yakutia

(2017) V. N. Reutsky et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy data and carbon isotope characteristics of the ophiolite-hosted diamonds from the Luobusa ophiolite, Tibet, and Ray-Iz ophiolite, Polar Urals

(2017) Xiangzhen Xu et al.   Lithosphere

A petrological assessment of diamond as a recorder of the mantle nitrogen cycle

(2016) Sami Mikhail et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Eclogitic diamonds from variable crustal protoliths in the northeastern Siberian craton: Trace elements and coupled δ13C–δ18O signatures in diamonds and garnet inclusions

(2016) Dmitry Zedgenizov et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Most diamonds were created equal

(2016) Brooke Matat Jablon et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Using Microdiamonds in Kimberlite Diamond Grade Prediction: A Case Study of the Variability in Diamond Population Characteristics Across the Size Range 0.2 to 3.4 mm in Misery Kimberlite, Ekati Mine, NWT, Canada

(2016) M. Y. Krebs et al.   ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

Diamond growth from C–H–N–O recycled fluids in the lithosphere: Evidence from CH 4 micro-inclusions and δ 13 C– δ 15 N–N content in Marange mixed-habit diamonds

(2016) Karen V. Smit et al.   LITHOS

Carbon and nitrogen isotope systematics in diamond: Different sensitivities to isotopic fractionation or a decoupled origin?

(2016) K. Hogberg et al.   LITHOS

First evidence of hydrous silicic fluid films around solid inclusions in gem-quality diamonds

(2016) Paolo Nimis et al.   LITHOS

Slab melting as a barrier to deep carbon subduction

(2016) Andrew R. Thomson et al.   NATURE

Early Archaean tectonics and mantle redox recorded in Witwatersrand diamonds

(2016) Katie A. Smart et al.   Nature Geoscience

Large gem diamonds from metallic liquid in Earth’s deep mantle

(2016) Evan M. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon isotope fractionation during high pressure and high temperature crystallization of Fe–C melt

(2015) V.N. Reutsky et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

A nitrogen isotope fractionation factor between diamond and its parental fluid derived from detailed SIMS analysis of a gem diamond and theoretical calculations

(2015) D.C. Petts et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Carbon isotope fractionation during experimental crystallisation of diamond from carbonate fluid at mantle conditions

(2015) Vadim Reutsky et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Diamonds in ophiolites: Contamination or a new diamond growth environment?

(2015) D. Howell et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Nitrogen isotope systematics and origins of mixed-habit diamonds

(2015) D. Howell et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Diamond formation — Where, when and how?

(2015) T. Stachel et al.   LITHOS

H2O in olivine and garnet inclusions still trapped in diamonds from the Siberian craton: Implications for the water content of cratonic lithosphere peridotites

(2015) Davide Novella et al.   LITHOS

Highly saline fluids from a subducting slab as the source for fluid-rich diamonds

(2015) Yaakov Weiss et al.   NATURE

Reevaluating carbon fluxes in subduction zones, what goes down, mostly comes up

(2015) Peter B. Kelemen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diamond formation due to a pH drop during fluid–rock interactions

(2015) Dimitri A. Sverjensky et al.   Nature Communications

Diamond Formation: A Stable Isotope Perspective

(2014) Pierre Cartigny et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The buffering capacity of lithospheric mantle: implications for diamond formation

(2014) Robert W. Luth et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Origin of sub-lithospheric diamonds from the Juina-5 kimberlite (Brazil): constraints from carbon isotopes and inclusion compositions

(2014) A. R. Thomson et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

The stability of Fe–Ni carbides in the Earth's mantle: Evidence for a low Fe–Ni–C melt fraction in the deep mantle

(2014) Arno Rohrbach et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Carbonado: Physical and chemical properties, a critical evaluation of proposed origins, and a revised genetic model

(2014) Stephen E. Haggerty   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Carbon isotopes and nitrogen contents in placer diamonds from the NE Siberian craton: implications for diamond origins

(2014) Vladislav S. Shatsky et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

Local redox buffering by carbon at low pressures and the formation of moissanite – natural SiC

(2014) Andrei A. Shiryaev et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

The capacity of hydrous fluids to transport and fractionate incompatible elements and metals within the Earth's mantle

(2014) John Adam et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Isotopic constraints on the nature and circulation of deep mantle C–H–O–N fluids: Carbon and nitrogen systematics within ultra-deep diamonds from Kankan (Guinea)

(2014) M. Palot et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Nitrogen speciation in mantle and crustal fluids

(2014) Yuan Li et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Hydrous mantle transition zone indicated by ringwoodite included within diamond

(2014) D. G. Pearson et al.   NATURE

Nitrogen speciation in upper mantle fluids and the origin of Earth's nitrogen-rich atmosphere

(2014) Sami Mikhail et al.   Nature Geoscience

Important role for organic carbon in subduction-zone fluids in the deep carbon cycle

(2014) Dimitri A. Sverjensky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Carbon-bearing iron phases and the carbon isotope composition of the deep Earth

(2014) Juske Horita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Constraining the internal variability of the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen within mantle diamonds

(2013) S. Mikhail et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Diamond from recycled crustal carbon documented by coupled δ18O–δ13C measurements of diamonds and theirinclusions

(2013) R.B. Ickert et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Nitrogen Isotopes and Mantle Geodynamics: The Emergence of Life and the Atmosphere-Crust-Mantle Connection

(2013) P. Cartigny et al.   Elements

Multiple growth events, processes and fluid sources involved in diamond genesis: A micro-analytical study of sulphide-bearing diamonds from Finsch mine, RSA

(2013) M. Palot et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Anticorrelation between low δ13C of eclogitic diamonds and high δ18O of their coesite and garnet inclusions requires a subduction origin

(2013) Daniel J. Schulze et al.   GEOLOGY

Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era

(2013) G. Holland et al.   NATURE

The oxidation state of the mantle and the extraction of carbon from Earth’s interior

(2013) Vincenzo Stagno et al.   NATURE

AVIAT DIAMONDS: A WINDOW INTO THE DEEP LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE BENEATH THE NORTHERN CHURCHILL PROVINCE, MELVILLE PENINSULA, CANADA

(2012) J. Peats et al.   CANADIAN MINERALOGIST

On the visualisation of detrital age distributions

(2012) Pieter Vermeesch   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Platelet development in cuboid diamonds: insights from micro-FTIR mapping

(2012) D. Howell et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Evidence for deep mantle convection and primordial heterogeneity from nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes in diamond

(2012) M. Palot et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Micron-scale coupled carbon isotope and nitrogen abundance variations in diamonds: Evidence for episodic diamond formation beneath the Siberian Craton

(2012) D.F. Wiggers de Vries et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Nature of alkali-carbonate fluids in the sub-continental lithospheric mantle

(2012) A. Giuliani et al.   GEOLOGY

The micro-/macro-diamond relationship: A case study from the Artemisia kimberlite (Northern Slave Craton, Canada)

(2012) C.N. Johnson et al.   LITHOS

Nanodiamond formation in natural processes from fluid systems at low P-T parameters

(2011) S. K. Simakov   DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES

Experimental determination of carbon isotope fractionation between iron carbide melt and carbon: 12C-enriched carbon in the Earth's core?

(2011) Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Heat production and geotherms for the continental lithosphere

(2011) D. Hasterok et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The origins and concentrations of water, carbon, nitrogen and noble gases on Earth

(2011) Bernard Marty   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diamond growth from oxidized carbon sources beneath the Northern Slave Craton, Canada: A δ13C–N study of eclogite-hosted diamonds from the Jericho kimberlite

(2011) Katie A. Smart et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Redox freezing and melting in the Earth’s deep mantle resulting from carbon–iron redox coupling

(2011) Arno Rohrbach et al.   NATURE

Mantle-related carbonados? Geochemical insights from diamonds from the Dachine komatiite (French Guiana)

(2010) P. Cartigny   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Carbon speciation in the asthenosphere: Experimental measurements of the redox conditions at which carbonate-bearing melts coexist with graphite or diamond in peridotite assemblages

(2010) Vincenzo Stagno et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Re–Os isotopic composition of peridotitic sulphide inclusions in diamonds from Ellendale, Australia: Age constraints on Kimberley cratonic lithosphere

(2010) K.V. Smit et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Insights into C and H storage in the altered oceanic crust: Results from ODP/IODP Hole 1256D

(2010) S. Shilobreeva et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Metastable nanosized diamond formation from a C-H-O fluid system

(2010) S.K. Simakov   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Diamond formation in the deep mantle: the record of mineral inclusions and their distribution in relation to mantle dehydration zones

(2010) B. Harte   MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE

Olivine water contents in the continental lithosphere and the longevity of cratons

(2010) Anne H. Peslier et al.   NATURE

Diamonds and eclogites of the Jericho kimberlite (Northern Canada)

(2009) Andrea De Stefano et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Metasomatic diamond growth: A multi-isotope study (13C, 15N, 33S, 34S) of sulphide inclusions and their host diamonds from Jwaneng (Botswana)

(2009) E. Thomassot et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mixed fluid sources involved in diamond growth constrained by Sr–Nd–Pb–C–N isotopes and trace elements

(2009) Ofra Klein-BenDavid et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Experimental determination of carbon isotope fractionation between CaCO3 and graphite

(2009) Peter Deines et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A model for C–O–H fluid in the Earth’s mantle

(2009) Chi Zhang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Inverse kinetic isotope fractionation during bacterial nitrite oxidation

(2009) Karen L. Casciotti   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Volatile composition of microinclusions in diamonds from the Panda kimberlite, Canada: Implications for chemical and isotopic heterogeneity in the mantle

(2009) Ray Burgess et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Evaluation of kimberlite diamond potential using FTIR spectroscopy of xenocrystic olivine

(2009) Sergei Matveev et al.   LITHOS

A mantle origin for Paleoarchean peridotitic diamonds from the Panda kimberlite, Slave Craton: Evidence from 13C-, 15N- and 33,34S-stable isotope systematics

(2009) Pierre Cartigny et al.   LITHOS

Systematic regional variations in diamond carbon isotopic composition and inclusion chemistry beneath the Orapa kimberlite cluster, in Botswana

(2009) Peter Deines et al.   LITHOS

High-Mg carbonatitic microinclusions in some Yakutian diamonds—a new type of diamond-forming fluid

(2009) Ofra Klein-BenDavid et al.   LITHOS

Sources of carbon in inclusion bearing diamonds

(2009) Thomas Stachel et al.   LITHOS

Diffusion in diamond. I. Carbon isotope mapping of natural diamond

(2009) J. A. Craven et al.   MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE

Diffusion in diamond. II. High-pressure-temperature experiments

(2009) B. Harte et al.   MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE

The Redox State of Earth's Mantle

(2008) Daniel J. Frost et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Finding peaks in geochemical distributions: A re-examination of the helium-continental crust correlation

(2008) John F. Rudge   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Infrared and Raman spectroscopic observations of Central African carbonado and implications for its origin

(2008) Hiroyuki Kagi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

Monitoring diamond crystal growth, a combined experimental and SIMS study

(2008) Vadim N. Reutsky et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

Seafloor alteration of basaltic glass: Textures, geochemistry, and endolithic microorganisms

(2008) Claudia Kruber et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Primary carbonatite melt from deeply subducted oceanic crust

(2008) M. J. Walter et al.   NATURE

The origin of cratonic diamonds — Constraints from mineral inclusions

(2008) T. Stachel et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Role of recycled oceanic basalt and sediment in generating the Hf–Nd mantle array

(2007) Catherine Chauvel et al.   Nature Geoscience