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Physico-chemical conditions for ultrabasic-basic evolution of the mantle magmas and diamond-producing melts of the upper mantle are created due to two sequential peritectic interaction: (1) the clinopyroxene-formed reaction of orthopyroxene and ultrabasic melt (orthopyroxene loss) and (2) the garnet-formed reaction of olivine with jadeite component of fractionating ultrabasic melt (olivine loss).
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Litvin, Y.A. (2017). Ultrabasic-Basic Fractionating of Mantle Magmas and Diamond-Parental Melts. In: Genesis of Diamonds and Associated Phases. Springer Mineralogy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54543-1_6
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