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Kimberlites - Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Kimberlites - Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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This is a book about the petrology of kimberlites. It is not about
upper mantle xenoliths, diamonds, or prospecting for kimberlites.
The object of the book is to provide a comprehensive survey and
critique of the advances which have been made in kimberlite studies
over the last twenty-five years. Kimberlites are rare rock types;
however, their relative obscurity is overriden by their economic
and petrological importance to a degree which is not shared with
the commoner varieties of igneous rocks. Kimberlites are
consequently of interest to a diverse group of earth scientists,
ranging from isotope g ochemists concerned with the evolution of
the mantle, to volcanologists pondering the origins of diatremes,
to exploration geologists seeking new occurrences of the
diamondiferous varieties. A common factor essential to all of these
activities is a thorough understanding of the characteristics of
kimberlites. For the petrologist, kimberlites are exciting and
challenging objects for study. Their petrographic diversity,
complex mineralogy and geochemistry, and unusual style of intrusion
provide endless opportunities for stimulating hypothesis and
conjecture concerning their origin and evolution. Kimberlites are a
part of a wide spectrum of continental intra-cratonic magmatism.
Only by understanding all of the parts of this activity in detail
may we make progress in our understanding of the whole.
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