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Mantle-Carbonatite Conception of Diamond and Associated Phases Genesis

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Genesis of Diamonds and Associated Phases

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The mantle-carbonatite conception of diamond genesis has been worked out as the result of consistent concordance of mineralogical and experimental evidence. This makes possible to have arrived to the construction of the generalized diagrams for compositions of diamond-producing melts under the upper mantle, transition zone and lower mantle conditions.

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Litvin, Y.A. (2017). Mantle-Carbonatite Conception of Diamond and Associated Phases Genesis. In: Genesis of Diamonds and Associated Phases. Springer Mineralogy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54543-1_7

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