Kimberlites I : Kimberlites and Related Rocks

Academician Vladimir Stepanovitch Sobolev

I - Detection of Kimberlitic Occurrences

(1) A Teledetective Study of Kimberlite Regions in North America (Colorado-Wyoming), East Africa (Mwadui), and Siberia (Mir)

(2) Evaluation of Geophysical Techniques for Diatreme Delineation in the Colorado-Wyoming Kimberlite Province

(3) Geobotanical Expression of a Blind Kimberlite Pipe, Central India

II - Natural Occurrences of Kimberlites and Related Rocks: Geology, Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry

(1) The Geology of the Mayeng Kimberlites Ill Complex, South Africa,

(2) The Oxide Minerals of the Wesselton Mine Kimberlite, Kimberley, South Africa

(3) Petrology of Carbonate Tuff from Melkfontein, East Griqualand, Southern Africa

(4) The Koidu Kimberlite Complex, Sierra Leone: Geological Setting, Petrology and Mineral Chemistry

(5) Petrography, Geochemistry and Strontium Isotopic Composition of the Mbuji-Mayi and Kundelungu Kimberlites (Zaire)

(6) Kimberlites Near Orroroo, South Australia

(7) The Lake Ellen Kimberlite, Michigan, U.S.A.

(8) Petrology of Megacrysts, Mafic and Ultramafic Xenoliths from the Pipe of Eglazines, Causses, France

(9) Oceanic Carbonatites

III - Kimberlites and Lamproites: General Syntheses

(1) Kimberlites in China and Their Major Components: a Discussion on the Physico-Chemical Properties of the Upper Mantle

(2) A Review of the Kimberlitic Rocks of Western Australia,

(3) The Diamond-Bearing Ultrapotassic (Lamproitic) Rocks of the West Kimberley Region, Western Australia

(4) A New Look at Prairie Creek, Arkansas

(5) Spanish and Western Australian Lamproites: Aspects of Whole Rock Geochemistry

IV - Kimberlites: Physical and Chemical Processes

(1) Explosive Volcanism of the West Eifel Volcanic Field/Germany

(2) Physics of the Kimberlite Magmatism

(3) Kimberlite: "The Mantle Sample" Formed By Ultrametasomatism

(4) Subsolidus Reactions in Kimberlitic Ilmenites: Exsolution, Reduction and the Redox State of the Mantle

(5) An Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Partial Melting in the System KAlSiO4- CaO- MgO- SiO2- CO2 and Applications to the Genesis of Potassic Magmas, Carbonatites and Kimberlites

(6) The Formation of Kelyphite and Associated Sub-Kelyphitic and Sculptured Surfaces on Pyrope from Kimberlite

(7) Compositions of Fluids in Equilibrium with Peridotite: Implications for Alkaline Magmatism-Metasomatism

(8) Kimberlite and the Evolution of the Mantle

(9) Volume Instabilities in the Mantle as a Possible Source for Kimberlite Formation

(10) Kimberlitic Magmatism in the Eastern United States: Relationships to Mid-Atlantic Tectonism

(11) Kimberlites of Southern Africa - Are They Related to Subduction Processes

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