The discovery of kimberlites in antarctica extends the vast gondwanan cretaceous province

Kimberlites are a volumetrically minor component of the Earth's volcanic record, but are very important as the major commercial source of diamonds and as the deepest samples of the Earth's mantle. They were predominantly emplaced from ≈2,100 Ma to ≈10

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yaxley, Gregory, Kamenetsky, Vadim S, Nichols, Geoffrey T., Maas, Roland, Belousova, Elena, Rosenthal, Anja, Norman, Marc
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1885/75913
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Summary:Kimberlites are a volumetrically minor component of the Earth's volcanic record, but are very important as the major commercial source of diamonds and as the deepest samples of the Earth's mantle. They were predominantly emplaced from ≈2,100 Ma to ≈10