Micron-scale δ¹³C determination by NanoSIMS in a Juina diamond with a carbonate inclusion

• Pinti Daniele L.

  GEOTOP and Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal

• Ishida Akizumi

  Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo

• Takahata Naoto

  Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo

• Sano Yuji

  Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo

• Bureau Hélène

  Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Universités - UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7590 & Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle

• Cartigny Pierre

  Laboratoire de Géochimie des Isotopes Stables, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Micron-scale δ¹³C determination by NanoSIMS in a Juina diamond with a carbonate inclusion

Abstract

Juina diamonds present a wide spectrum of mineral inclusions, covering both peridotitic and eclogitic composition. Among the most rare inclusions, carbonates are interpreted as an evidence of deep recycling of sedimentary carbon into the transition zone or the lower mantle. Yet, the δ¹³C values measured in three FIB-TEM foils by NanoSIMS 50 of an alluvial diamond with a carbonate inclusion range between –8.85 ± 1.32‰ and –2.31 ± 1.88‰ with a mean total value of –5.0 ± 2.3‰. These values are in the range of typical mantle carbon, as measured in diamonds of peridotitic paragenesis. Similar δ¹³C values from –8.5 to –4.4‰ are reported in literature for five other Juina diamonds with carbonate inclusions. We can postulate either that the diamond is peridotitic and carbonate precipitated from fluids and survived to the reduction to diamond or that formed from reduction of carbonatitic melts in the upper mantle, percolating through eclogite.

Journal

• GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

  GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 50 (4), e7-e12, 2016-07-29

  GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Keywords

• sub-lithospheric diamonds
• Juina
• carbonate
• lower mantle
• peridotite
• eclogite

Details

• CRID: 1390282679529182336
• NII Article ID: 130005254488
• NII Book ID: AA00654975
• DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.2.0427
• ISSN: 18805973
• ISSN: 00167002
• NDL BIB ID: 027766973
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027766973
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geochemj/50/4/50_2.0427/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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