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Deep-Seated Xenoliths from the Brown Breccia of the Udachnaya Pipe, Siberia

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A detailed study in thin section of a set of 330 fresh small xenoliths from the brown breccia within a deep level of the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe allowed us reconstruction of the mantle section from 8.0 to 1.0 GPa, which represents 6 main capturing intervals. Interaction of the protokimberlite melt with the deeper level was responsible for peridotite heating, shearing, metasomatism, and remelting of eclogites. The most compositionally and thermally diverse mantle horizon is detected from 7.0 to 5.0 GPa. The pyroxenite-rich levels are found in the lithosphere base, near 4.0 GPa and in the upper part at 30–2.0 GPa.

High precision data for Cr, Al, Ti, Ca, and Ni in olivines from 64 xenoliths, obtained using Cameca SX 100 electron microprobe, reveal a high-Ca group that corresponds to porphyroclastic peridotites and a high-Ca–Ti group that corresponds to sheared peridotites. The low Ca but high Ni values are typical for coarse garnet peridotites, while the lower Ni values are derived from the Sp varieties. Phlogopite metasomatism throughout the whole section of the mantle column is due to interaction with deep-seated melts resembling Group II kimberlites. Larger phlogopite grains relate to ancient metasomatism. The deep-seated phlogopite breccias were formed at a deep level of the mantle column due to the H2O-rich fluid interaction with mantle peridotites and crystallized in the 2.5–1.0 GPa interval.

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Acknowledgments

To Austrian Academy of Sciences for the invitation of I.V. Ashchepkov for the study of xenoliths. To prof. H. Downes for the correction of the text. To Dr L.Pokhilenko for the analyses and eclogite samples. To company ALROSA for the permission to collect the samples. Supported by grant RBRF 05-11-00060a, 11-05-91060-PICSa.

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  1. Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, SD RAS Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    I. V. Ashchepkov, S. S. Kuligin, E. V. Malygina, A. M. Agashev, A. M. Logvinova, S. V. Palessky & O. S. Khmelnikova

  2. Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, A-1090, 366403, Vienna, Austria

    T. Ntaflos

  3. The Stock Company “ALROSA”, Chernyshevsky Street, 7, Mirny, 678170, Russian Federation

    S. I. Mityukhin

  4. Institute of Geochemistry SD RAS, Favorsky Street 1a, Irkutsk, Russia

    N. V. Alymova & N. V. Vladykin

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Ashchepkov, I.V. et al. (2013). Deep-Seated Xenoliths from the Brown Breccia of the Udachnaya Pipe, Siberia. In: Pearson, D., et al. Proceedings of 10th International Kimberlite Conference. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1170-9_5

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