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Relatively oxidized conditions for diamond formation at Udachnaya (Siberia)
Luca Faccincani
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Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via
Saragat 1, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
Valerio Cerantola
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Università degli
Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milan, Italy
ESRF – the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CS40220, 38043 Grenoble CEDEX 9,
France
Fabrizio Nestola
Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131
Padua, Italy
Paolo Nimis
Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131
Padua, Italy
Luca Ziberna
Department of Mathematics and Geoscience, University of Trieste, Via
Weiss 2, 34128 Trieste, Italy
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth,
Universitätsstraße 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Leonardo Pasqualetto
Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131
Padua, Italy
Aleksandr I. Chumakov
ESRF – the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CS40220, 38043 Grenoble CEDEX 9,
France
Jeffrey W. Harris
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12
8QQ, UK
Massimo Coltorti
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via
Saragat 1, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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Short summary
We determined the physical conditions at the time of its entrapment for an inclusion pair hosted in a Siberian diamond (Udachnaya kimberlite) and found that it equilibrated under relatively oxidized conditions, near the enstatite–magnesite–olivine–diamond (EMOD) buffer, similarly to Udachnaya xenoliths originating from comparable depths. These results can be reconciled with models suggesting relatively oxidized, water-rich CHO fluids as the most likely parents for lithospheric diamonds.
We determined the physical conditions at the time of its entrapment for an inclusion pair hosted...
