Orthopyroxene survival in deep carbonatite melts: implications for kimberlites

Comment on: “The ascent of kimberlite: Insights from olivine” by Brett R.C. et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 424 (2015) 119–131]

(2016) Vadim S. Kamenetsky   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

H 2 O–CO 2 solubility in low SiO 2 -melts and the unique mode of kimberlite degassing and emplacement

(2016) Yves Moussallam et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

CO2 solubility in kimberlite melts

(2015) Yves Moussallam et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The olivine macrocryst problem: New insights from minor and trace element compositions of olivine from Lac de Gras kimberlites, Canada

(2015) Yannick Bussweiler et al.   LITHOS

Paragenesis and complex zoning of olivine macrocrysts from unaltered kimberlite of the Udachnaya-East pipe, Yakutia: relationship with the kimberlite formation conditions and evolution

(2015) N.V. Sobolev et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

Melting phase equilibria of model carbonated peridotite from 8 to 12 GPa in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 and kimberlitic liquids in the Earth's upper mantle

(2014) S. Keshav et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Phase relations and melting of carbonated peridotite between 10 and 20 GPa: a proxy for alkali- and CO2-rich silicate melts in the deep mantle

(2014) Sujoy Ghosh et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Melting phase relations of model carbonated peridotite from 2 to 3 GPa in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2and further indication of possible unmixing between carbonatite and silicate liquids

(2014) Davide Novella et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Kimberlite ascent by assimilation-fuelled buoyancy

(2012) James K. Russell et al.   NATURE

The volatile content of hypabyssal kimberlite magmas: some constraints from experiments on natural rock compositions

(2011) Richard A. Brooker et al.   BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY

Phase relations of phlogopite with magnesite from 4 to 8 GPa

(2011) Andreas Enggist et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Formation of primary kimberlite melts – Constraints from experiments at 6–12GPa and variable CO2/H2O

(2011) A.V. Girnis et al.   LITHOS

Survival of majoritic garnet in diamond by direct kimberlite ascent from deep mantle

(2010) Masayuki Nishi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Olivine, and the Origin of Kimberlite

(2010) N. T. Arndt et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

The activity of silica in kimberlites, revisited

(2009) Robert W. Luth   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Origin of olivine in kimberlite: Phenocryst or impostor?

(2009) R.C. Brett et al.   LITHOS

Crystallization of megacrysts from protokimberlitic fluids: Geochemical evidence from high-Cr megacrysts in the Jericho kimberlite

(2009) M.G. Kopylova et al.   LITHOS

Geochemistry of hypabyssal kimberlites from Lac de Gras, Canada: Comparisons to a global database and applications to the parent magma problem

(2009) B.A. Kjarsgaard et al.   LITHOS

Fast kimberlite ascent rates estimated from hydrogen diffusion profiles in xenolithic mantle olivines from southern Africa

(2008) Anne H. Peslier et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Petrology of hypabyssal kimberlites: Relevance to primary magma compositions

(2008) Roger H. Mitchell   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH