High‐Pressure Carbonaceous Phases as Minerals

Authors

Oliver Tschauner, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

3-24-2020

Publication Title

Carbon in Earth’s Interior

Publisher

Wiley/American Geophysical Union

First page number:

11

Last page number:

23

Abstract

High‐pressure carbonaceous minerals establish a link between one of the most abundant chemical elements and processes that occur at high pressures, either in the interior of the Earth or during shock‐metamorphosis in space or on Earth. Diamonds from the Earth's mantle carry inclusions of carbides, carbonates, methane, and carbon‐dioxide. These inclusions elucidate diamond formation and the carbon recycling in the mantle. This chapter focuses on these inclusion minerals themselves, the means of detection, and the reconstruction of pressure‐temperature conditions of their formation in the mantle.

Keywords

Carbonate Inclusions; Fine‐Grained Diamond Inclusions; High‐Pressure Carbonaceous Phases; High‐Pressure Minerals; Oxides; Terrestrial Diamonds

Disciplines

Earth Sciences | Geology | Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Language

English

Repository Citation

Tschauner, O. (2020). High‐Pressure Carbonaceous Phases as Minerals. Carbon in Earth’s Interior 11-23. Wiley/American Geophysical Union.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119508229.ch2