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Regularities and mechanism of formation of the mantle lithosphere structure beneath the Siberian Craton in comparison with other cratons

  • I. V. Ashchepkov
  • , N. V. Vladykin
  • , T. Ntaflos
  • , H. Downes
  • , R. Mitchell
  • , A. P. Smelov
  • , N. V. Alymova
  • , S. I. Kostrovitsky
  • , A. Ya Rotman
  • , G. P. Smarov
  • , I. V. Makovchuk
  • , Yu. B. Stegnitsky
  • , E. N. Nigmatulina
  • , O. S. Khmelnikova

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4-24
Number of pages21
JournalGondwana Research
Volume23
Issue number1
Early online date30 Mar 2012
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2013

Funding

We are grateful to ALROSA Company which provided the concentrate of heavy minerals. We also thank Afanasiev V.P., Logvinova A.M., Agashev Kuligin S.S.<SUP>a</SUP>, Pokhilenko L.N., Vavilov M.A, Malygina E.V., Tychkov N.S., Ovchinnikov Y.I., MininV.A<SUP>a</SUP>, Palessky S.V. who provided the mineral separates and analyses for the construction of the diagrams. We are thankful to the staff of EPMA and ICP MS laboratories of IGM SB RAS. This study was supported by RBRF Grant 11-05-00060a. We express our thanks to Dr. H. Coopersmith for the samples from Kl-1 kimberlites.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 105120 Petrology
  • 105105 Geochemistry

Keywords

  • Mantle
  • Siberian Craton
  • Terrains
  • Lithosphere
  • Layering
  • Monomineral thermobarometry
  • Garnet
  • Clinopyroxenes
  • Chromite
  • Ilmenite
  • Trace
  • Elements
  • GIBEON KIMBERLITE PROVINCE
  • SOUTH-AFRICA
  • PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS
  • CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE
  • MINERAL INCLUSIONS
  • SLAVE CRATON
  • GEOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS
  • LHERZOLITE XENOLITHS
  • ULTRAMAFIC XENOLITHS
  • WESSELTON KIMBERLITE

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