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Impact Diamonds from Shocked Crystalline Rocks and Impactites

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Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks

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Impact diamonds were found in all kinds of impactites and in placers within and around of the Popigai impact structure. They are the result of a solid-phase transition of graphite under the impulse compression. They form paramorphoses after graphite, inheriting its morphology, and represent complex polycrystalline intergrowths of nano-sized crystallites of cubic and, probably, hexagonal phases of carbon. In many respects, impact diamonds differ from diamonds found in kimberlites, but they also have a high hardness, even exceeding kimberlite ones. The isotopic composition of carbon of impact diamonds is similar to that of graphite carbon.

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Shafranovsky, G.I. (2019). Impact Diamonds from Shocked Crystalline Rocks and Impactites. In: Masaitis, V. (eds) Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks. Impact Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77988-1_6

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