Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Archaean and Proterozoic diamond growth from contrasting styles of large-scale magmatism

  • Janne M. Koornneef,
  • Michael U. Gress,
  • Ingrid L. Chinn,
  • Hielke A. Jelsma,
  • Jeff W. Harris,
  • Gareth R. Davies

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00564-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Dating of inclusions within diamonds is used to reconstruct Earth’s geodynamic history. Here, the authors report isotope data on individual garnet inclusions within diamonds from Venetia, South Africa, showing that two suites of diamonds define two isochrons, showing the importance of dating individual inclusions.