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Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials

[Volume 1 - needs to have volume 2 incorporated.] This thesis records a series of attempts to elicit from bulk kimberlites and their xenoliths, geochemical and mineralogical information meaningful with respect to the primary composition of their source in the mantle. Some of these attempts were succ...

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Main Author: Berg, Gerhard Wolfgang
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description [Volume 1 - needs to have volume 2 incorporated.] This thesis records a series of attempts to elicit from bulk kimberlites and their xenoliths, geochemical and mineralogical information meaningful with respect to the primary composition of their source in the mantle. Some of these attempts were successful and some controversial, whilst others were modified significantly to cater for secondary alteration processes (metasomatic events) which took place either in the mantle, or during, or after the emplacement of the rocks in the crust. These secondary events document those stages of the history of the rocks which overwrite and disguise their primary state. It is important to understand the details of these secondary alteration processes so that their record is not erroneously attributed to the primary state of the rocks in the mantle.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/40565 Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials Berg, Gerhard Wolfgang Geological Sciences [Volume 1 - needs to have volume 2 incorporated.] This thesis records a series of attempts to elicit from bulk kimberlites and their xenoliths, geochemical and mineralogical information meaningful with respect to the primary composition of their source in the mantle. Some of these attempts were successful and some controversial, whilst others were modified significantly to cater for secondary alteration processes (metasomatic events) which took place either in the mantle, or during, or after the emplacement of the rocks in the crust. These secondary events document those stages of the history of the rocks which overwrite and disguise their primary state. It is important to understand the details of these secondary alteration processes so that their record is not erroneously attributed to the primary state of the rocks in the mantle. 2024-10-10T10:38:48Z 2024-10-10T10:38:48Z 1994 2024-07-12T07:17:26Z Thesis / Dissertation Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40565 eng application/pdf Department of Geological Sciences Faculty of Science
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Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials
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title Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials
title_full Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials
title_fullStr Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials
title_full_unstemmed Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials
title_short Alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths, and the search for unaltered mantle materials
title_sort alteration reactions which affect the geochemistry of kimberlite and its xenoliths and the search for unaltered mantle materials
topic Geological Sciences
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40565
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