Geochronology of Diamonds

Morphology of Monocrystalline Diamond and its Inclusions

(2022) Jeff W. Harris 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

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

Detrital chromites reveal Slave craton’s missing komatiite

(2021) Rasmus Haugaard et al.   GEOLOGY

Protogenetic sulfide inclusions in diamonds date the diamond formation event using Re-Os isotopes

(2021) M.G. Pamato et al.   GEOLOGY

Mesozoic to Paleoproterozoic diamond growth beneath Botswana recorded by Re-Os ages from individual eclogitic and websteritic inclusions

(2021) Michael U. Gress et al.   LITHOS

Helium in diamonds unravels over a billion years of craton metasomatism

(2021) Yaakov Weiss et al.   Nature Communications

Heavy iron in large gem diamonds traces deep subduction of serpentinized ocean floor

(2021) Evan M. Smith et al.   Science Advances

Osmium isotope constraints on formation and refertilization of the non-cratonic continental mantle lithosphere

(2021) Laurie Reisberg   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Two billion years of episodic and simultaneous websteritic and eclogitic diamond formation beneath the Orapa kimberlite cluster, Botswana

(2021) M. U. Gress et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Deep continental roots and cratons

(2021) D. Graham Pearson et al.   NATURE

Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth

(2020) Michael Brown et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

Sm-Nd isochron ages coupled with C-N isotope data of eclogitic diamonds from Jwaneng, Botswana

(2020) M.U. Gress et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Deciphering the Enigmatic Origin of Guyana's Diamonds

(2020) Roy Bassoo et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

High-Mg and low-Mg mantle eclogites from Koidu (West African craton) linked by Neoproterozoic ultramafic melt metasomatism of subducted Archaean plateau-like oceanic crust

(2019) S Aulbach et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Protogenetic garnet inclusions and the age of diamonds

(2019) F. Nestola et al.   GEOLOGY

Sulfur isotopes in diamonds reveal differences in continent construction

(2019) Karen V. Smit et al.   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-forming media through time – Trace element and noble gas systematics of diamonds formed over 3 billion years of Earth’s history

(2019) S. Timmerman et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Goldschmidtite, (K,REE,Sr)(Nb,Cr)O3: A new perovskite supergroup mineral found in diamond from Koffiefontein, South Africa

(2019) Nicole A. Meyer et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

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

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

Heterogeneous kimberlite metasomatism revealed from a combined He-Os isotope study of Siberian megacrystalline dunite xenoliths

(2019) John F. Pernet-Fisher et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Primordial and recycled helium isotope signatures in the mantle transition zone

(2019) S. Timmerman et al.   SCIENCE

Lithosphere differentiation in the early Earth controls Archean tectonics

(2019) F.A. Capitanio et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The role of impacts on Archaean tectonics

(2019) C. O’Neill et al.   GEOLOGY

Contrasting noble gas compositions of peridotitic and eclogitic monocrystalline diamonds from the Argyle lamproite, Western Australia

(2019) S. Timmerman et al.   LITHOS

A Palaeoproterozoic diamond-bearing lithospheric mantle root beneath the Archean Sask Craton, Canada

(2019) Janina Czas et al.   LITHOS

U–Pb ages of rare rutile inclusions in diamond indicate entrapment synchronous with kimberlite formation

(2019) Axel K. Schmitt et al.   LITHOS

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

Identification of molybdenite in diamond-hosted sulphide inclusions: Implications for Re–Os radiometric dating

(2018) Lotta I. Kemppinen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Victor Mine (Superior Craton, Canada): Neoproterozoic lherzolitic diamonds from a thermally-modified cratonic root

(2018) Thomas Stachel et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Provenance history of detrital diamond deposits, West Coast of Namaqualand, South Africa

(2018) David Phillips et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

IsoplotR : A free and open toolbox for geochronology

(2018) Pieter Vermeesch   Geoscience Frontiers

A combined cathodoluminescence and electron backscatter diffraction examination of the growth relationships between Jwaneng diamonds and their eclogitic inclusions

(2018) Gareth R. Davies et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Blue boron-bearing diamonds from Earth’s lower mantle

(2018) Evan M. Smith et al.   NATURE

A common parentage-low abundance trace element data of gem diamonds reveals similar fluids to fibrous diamonds

(2018) M.Y. Krebs et al.   LITHOS

The evolution of plate tectonics

(2018) Robert J. Stern   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Continent stabilisation by lateral accretion of subduction zone-processed depleted mantle residues; insights from Zealandia

(2018) J.M. Scott et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Dating mantle peridotites using Re-Os isotopes: The complex message from whole rocks, base metal sulfides, and platinum group minerals

(2018) Ambre Luguet et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Homogenisation of sulphide inclusions within diamonds: A new approach to diamond inclusion geochemistry

(2017) Iain McDonald et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Astronomical calibration of 40 Ar/ 39 Ar reference minerals using high-precision, multi-collector (ARGUSVI) mass spectrometry

(2017) D. Phillips et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

An essential role for continental rifts and lithosphere in the deep carbon cycle

(2017) Stephen F. Foley et al.   Nature Geoscience

Intercalibration and age of the Alder Creek sanidine 40 Ar/ 39 Ar standard

(2017) Elizabeth M. Niespolo et al.   Quaternary Geochronology

Mineral inclusions in diamonds may be synchronous but not syngenetic

(2017) Fabrizio Nestola et al.   Nature Communications

Archaean and Proterozoic diamond growth from contrasting styles of large-scale magmatism

(2017) Janne M. Koornneef et al.   Nature Communications

Stratigraphy of the Roraima Supergroup along the Brazil-Guyana border in the Guiana shield, Northern Amazonian Craton - results of the Brazil-Guyana Geology and Geodiversity Mapping Project

(2017) Nelson Joaquim Reis et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

Multiple carbon and nitrogen sources associated with the parental mantle fluids of fibrous diamonds from Diavik, Canada, revealed by SIMS microanalysis

(2016) D. C. Petts et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Conditioned duality of the Earth system: Geochemical tracing of the supercontinent cycle through Earth history

(2016) Martin J. Van Kranendonk et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The provenance of Borneo's enigmatic alluvial diamonds: A case study from Cempaka, SE Kalimantan

(2016) L.T. White et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Early Earth plume-lid tectonics: A high-resolution 3D numerical modelling approach

(2016) R. Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

X-ray topographic study of a diamond from Udachnaya: Implications for the genetic nature of inclusions

(2016) Giovanna Agrosì et al.   LITHOS

Trace element composition of silicate inclusions in sub-lithospheric diamonds from the Juina-5 kimberlite: Evidence for diamond growth from slab melts

(2016) A.R. Thomson et al.   LITHOS

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

(2016) Paolo Nimis et al.   LITHOS

Type Ib diamond formation and preservation in the West African lithospheric mantle: Re–Os age constraints from sulphide inclusions in Zimmi diamonds

(2016) Karen V. Smit et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

(2016) Evan M. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Early Permian diamond-bearing proximal eskers in the Lichtenburg/Ventersdorp area of the North West Province, South Africa

(2016) Mike C.J. de Wit   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Making Archean cratonic roots by lateral compression: A two-stage thickening and stabilization model

(2016) Hongliang Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Paleoproterozoic formation age for the Siberian cratonic mantle: Hf and Nd isotope data on refractory peridotite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite

(2015) Luc S. Doucet et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Stable isotope evidence for crustal recycling as recorded by superdeep diamonds

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

Post-Archean formation of the lithospheric mantle in the central Siberian craton: Re–Os and PGE study of peridotite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite

(2015) Dmitri A. Ionov et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Density heterogeneity of the cratonic lithosphere: A case study of the Siberian Craton

(2015) Y. Cherepanova et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Diamond formation — Where, when and how?

(2015) T. Stachel et al.   LITHOS

Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: A geodynamic modeling perspective

(2015) E. Sizova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Re–Pt–Os Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Behavior in Oceanic and Continental Mantle Tectonites

(2015) Harry Becker et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Chalcophile and Siderophile Elements in Mantle Rocks: Trace Elements Controlled By Trace Minerals

(2015) Jean-Pierre Lorand et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Analytical Methods for the Highly Siderophile Elements

(2015) Thomas Meisel et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Distribution and Processing of Highly Siderophile Elements in Cratonic Mantle Lithosphere

(2015) Sonja Aulbach et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Highly Siderophile Element and187Os Signatures in Non-cratonic Basalt-hosted Peridotite Xenoliths: Unravelling the Origin and Evolution of the Post-Archean Lithospheric Mantle

(2015) Ambre Luguet et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Mantle Sulfides and their Role in Re–Os and Pb Isotope Geochronology

(2015) Jason Harvey et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Measurement of small ion beams by thermal ionisation mass spectrometry using new 1013Ohm resistors

(2014) J.M. Koornneef et al.   ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA

N-rich fluid inclusions in octahedrally-grown diamond

(2014) Evan M. Smith et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

LIMA U–Pb ages link lithospheric mantle metasomatism to Karoo magmatism beneath the Kimberley region, South Africa

(2014) Andrea Giuliani et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Olivine with diamond-imposed morphology included in diamonds. Syngenesis or protogenesis?

(2014) F. Nestola et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Trace element chemistry of peridotitic garnets in diamonds from the Premier (Cullinan) and Finsch kimberlites, South Africa: Contrasting styles of mantle metasomatism

(2014) K.S. Viljoen et al.   LITHOS

Earth’s earliest evolved crust generated in an Iceland-like setting

(2014) Jesse R. Reimink et al.   Nature Geoscience

Partition coefficients of chalcophile elements between sulfide and silicate melts and the early crystallization history of sulfide liquid: LA-ICP-MS analysis of MORB sulfide droplets

(2013) Clifford Patten et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Diamonds in Earthʼs oldest zircons from Jack Hills conglomerate, Australia, are contamination

(2013) Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Garnet Geochronology: Timekeeper of Tectonometamorphic Processes

(2013) E. F. Baxter et al.   Elements

Re–Os dating of sulphide inclusions zonally distributed in single Yakutian diamonds: Evidence for multiple episodes of Proterozoic formation and protracted timescales of diamond growth

(2013) D.F. Wiggers de Vries et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The sources and time-integrated evolution of diamond-forming fluids – Trace elements and isotopic evidence

(2013) Ofra Klein-BenDavid et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The oldest zircons of Africa—Their U–Pb–Hf–O isotope and trace element systematics, and implications for Hadean to Archean crust–mantle evolution

(2013) Armin Zeh et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon

(2013) S. B. Shirey et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Trace elements in gem diamond from Akwatia, Ghana and DeBeers Pool, South Africa

(2012) G.L. Melton et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

In situ UPb age determination and SrNd isotopic analysis of perovskite from the Premier (Cullinan) kimberlite, South Africa

(2012) Fu-Yuan Wu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Vanished diamondiferous cratonic root beneath the Southern Superior province: evidence from diamond inclusions in the Wawa metaconglomerate

(2012) Christine E. Miller et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Chalcophile and siderophile elements in sulphide inclusions in eclogitic diamonds and metal cycling in a Paleoproterozoic subduction zone

(2012) Sonja Aulbach et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Determination of the decay-constant of 87Rb by laboratory accumulation of 87Sr

(2012) Ethan Rotenberg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Archean mantle fluids preserved in fibrous diamonds from Wawa, Superior craton

(2012) E. M. Smith et al.   GEOLOGY

Craton nucleation and formation of thick lithospheric roots

(2012) Sonja Aulbach   LITHOS

Formation of cratonic lithosphere: An integrated thermal and petrological model

(2012) Claude Herzberg et al.   LITHOS

Two types of Archean continental crust: Plume and plate tectonics on early Earth

(2011) M. J. Van Kranendonk   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

AGES OF CRATONIC DIAMOND AND LITHOSPHERE EVOLUTION: CONSTRAINTS ON PRECAMBRIAN TECTONICS AND DIAMOND EXPLORATION

(2011) H. H. Helmstaedt et al.   CANADIAN MINERALOGIST

Metaconglomerate preserves evidence for kimberlite, diamondiferous root and medium grade terrane of a pre-2.7Ga Southern Superior protocraton

(2011) M.G. Kopylova et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mineral inclusions in diamonds track the evolution of a Mesozoic subducted slab beneath West Gondwanaland

(2011) Ben Harte et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Microxenoliths from the Slave craton: Archives of diamond formation along fluid conduits

(2011) Sonja Aulbach et al.   LITHOS

Deep Mantle Cycling of Oceanic Crust: Evidence from Diamonds and Their Mineral Inclusions

(2011) M. J. Walter et al.   SCIENCE

Start of the Wilson Cycle at 3 Ga Shown by Diamonds from Subcontinental Mantle

(2011) S. B. Shirey et al.   SCIENCE

Spectroscopic research on ultrahigh pressure (UHP) macrodiamond at Copeton and Bingara NSW, Eastern Australia

(2011) L. Barron et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Highly siderophile elements and Sr–Nd isotopes in refertilized mantle peridotites — A case study from the Totalp ultramafic body, Swiss Alps

(2010) David van Acken et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

HelioPlot, and the treatment of overdispersed (U–Th–Sm)/He data

(2010) Pieter Vermeesch   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Precious metal enrichment in the Platreef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: evidence from homogenized magmatic sulfide melt inclusions

(2010) D. A. Holwell et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Mineral inclusions in sublithospheric diamonds from Collier 4 kimberlite pipe, Juina, Brazil: subducted protoliths, carbonated melts and primary kimberlite magmatism

(2010) Galina P. Bulanova et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

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

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

Sulfide and whole rock Re–Os systematics of eclogite and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Slave Craton, Canada

(2009) Sonja Aulbach 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

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

Quantitative analysis of trace element concentrations in some gem-quality diamonds

(2009) J McNeill et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Re–Os and 40Ar/39Ar isotope measurements of inclusions in alluvial diamonds from the Ural Mountains: Constraints on diamond genesis and eruption ages

(2009) Fernando Laiginhas et al.   LITHOS

Age and origin of peridotitic diamonds from Venetia, Limpopo Belt, Kaapvaal–Zimbabwe craton

(2009) S.H. Richardson et al.   LITHOS

Sulphide survival and diamond genesis during formation and evolution of Archaean subcontinental lithosphere: A comparison between the Slave and Kaapvaal cratons

(2009) Sonja Aulbach et al.   LITHOS

An integrated petrological, geochemical and Re–Os isotope study of peridotite xenoliths from the Argyle lamproite, Western Australia and implications for cratonic diamond occurrences

(2009) A. Luguet et al.   LITHOS

Extremely depleted lithospheric mantle and diamonds beneath the southern Zimbabwe Craton

(2009) Chris B. Smith 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

Interpreting ages from Re–Os isotopes in peridotites

(2009) Roberta L. Rudnick et al.   LITHOS

Diamond provenance studies from 40Ar/39Ar dating of clinopyroxene inclusions: An example from the west coast of Namibia

(2009) D. Phillips et al.   LITHOS

Super-deep diamonds from kimberlites in the Juina area, Mato Grosso State, Brazil

(2009) Felix V. Kaminsky et al.   LITHOS

Kimberlitic sources of super-deep diamonds in the Juina area, Mato Grosso State, Brazil

(2009) Felix V. Kaminsky et al.   LITHOS

Landscape evolution in Zimbabwe from the Permian to present, with implications for kimberlite prospecting

(2009) A.E. Moore et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Diamond formation episodes at the southern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton: Re–Os systematics of sulfide inclusions from the Jagersfontein Mine

(2008) Sonja Aulbach et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Provenance studies from 40Ar/39Ar dating of mineral inclusions in diamonds: Methodological tests on the Orapa kimberlite, Botswana

(2008) D. Phillips et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

PRECISE AGE OF THE PLATINIFEROUS MERENSKY REEF, BUSHVELD COMPLEX, SOUTH AFRICA, BY THE U-Pb ZIRCON CHEMICAL ABRASION ID-TIMS TECHNIQUE

(2008) J. S. Scoates et al.   ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

Applications of PGE Radioisotope Systems in Geo- and Cosmochemistry

(2008) R. W. Carlson et al.   Elements

Role of oceanic plateaus in the initiation of subduction and origin of continental crust

(2008) Rajeev Nair et al.   GEOLOGY

Formation of Archaean continental lithosphere and its diamonds: the root of the problem

(2008) D.G. PEARSON et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Primary carbonatite melt from deeply subducted oceanic crust

(2008) M. J. Walter et al.   NATURE

Continental mantle signature of Bushveld magmas and coeval diamonds

(2008) Stephen H. Richardson et al.   NATURE

Ancient, highly heterogeneous mantle beneath Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean

(2008) Chuan-Zhou Liu et al.   NATURE

The origin of cratonic diamonds — Constraints from mineral inclusions

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

Effects of water and iron content on the rheological contrast between garnet and olivine

(2008) Ikuo Katayama et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Synchronizing Rock Clocks of Earth History

(2008) K. F. Kuiper et al.   SCIENCE

Application of precise 142Nd/144Nd analysis of small samples to inclusions in diamonds (Finsch, South Africa) and Hadean Zircons (Jack Hills, Western Australia)

(2007) G. Caro et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY