The Study of Olivine Inclusions in Diamonds from Liaoning, China and the Evaluation of Related Thermometers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
4.1. Implications for Refractory Mantle
4.2. Temperature Estimation of Liaoning Diamonds Including Olivine
4.2.1. Conventional Thermometers Made of Olivine
4.2.2. Temperature Estimation Based on Olivine Inclusions
- LA-ICP-MS vs. EPMA: Temperature measurements for olivine
- 2.
- Temperature Estimation with thermometers based on previous EPMA data
- 3.
- P-T constraints of Liaoning diamonds
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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L1-2-O2 | L2-16-O3 | L2-61-O2 | L1-2-G-3 | L1-2-g-1 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EPMA (wt.%) | SiO2 | 39.70 | 41.57 | 42.47 | 41.38 | 40.85 |
TiO2 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | |
Al2O3 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 18.53 | 20.69 | |
Cr2O3 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 8.10 | 6.68 | |
FeO | 7.17 | 6.62 | 6.68 | 6.21 | 7.13 | |
MnO | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.28 | 0.21 | |
MgO | 52.78 | 50.79 | 50.13 | 22.18 | 20.60 | |
NiO | 0.31 | 0.27 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.03 | |
CaO | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 3.27 | 3.23 | |
Na2O | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.20 | |
K2O | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.37 | |
Total | 100.26 | 99.45 | 99.86 | 100.01 | 100.03 | |
Si | 0.96 | 1.01 | 1.02 | 2.96 | 2.93 | |
Ti | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Al | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.56 | 1.75 | |
Cr | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.46 | 0.38 | |
Fe3+ | 0.06 | 0.08 | ||||
Fe2+ | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.32 | 0.35 | |
Mn | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | |
Mg | 1.91 | 1.84 | 1.80 | 2.37 | 2.20 | |
Ni | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Ca | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.25 | 0.25 | |
Na | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | |
K | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.03 | |
Total | 3.03 | 2.99 | 2.98 | 8.00 | 8.00 | |
Fo | 92.82 | 93.12 | 92.90 | |||
Mg# | 92.92 | 93.19 | 93.04 | 86.42 | 83.7 | |
Cr# | 84.29 | 69.01 | 87.39 | |||
Ca/Al | 2.73 | 0.73 | 7.58 | |||
LA-ICP-MS (ppm) | Ti | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | ||
Al | 72.3 | 66.5 | 52.8 | |||
Cr | 268 | 571 | 422 |
Sample | T [Al-ol, dH10-Dia] (°C) | T [Al-ol, Bw17] (°C) | T [Cr-ol, dH10] (°C) | Average (°C) | Standard Deviation (°C) | Cr# | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TLA | L1-2 | 1176 | 1178 | 1169 | 1175 | 4 | 65.8 |
L2-16 | - | 1152 | 1196 | 1174 | 21 | 81.7 | |
L2-61 | - | 1118 | 1148 | 1133 | 14 | 80.6 | |
TEPMA | L1-2 | - | 1132 | 1189 | 1160 | 29 | 84.3 |
L2-16 | 1252 | 1264 | 1267 | 1261 | 6 | 64.1 | |
L2-61 | - | 1048 | 1112 | 1080 | 32 | 80.1 |
T [Al-Ol, dH10-Dia] | T [Al-Ol, BW17] | T [Cr-Ol, dH10] | Average | |
---|---|---|---|---|
T [Al-Ol, dH10-Dia] | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.99 | 1.00 |
T [Al-Ol, BW17] | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.95 | 0.99 |
T [Cr-Ol, dH10] | 0.99 | 0.95 | 1.00 | 0.98 |
Average | 1.00 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 1.00 |
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Qin, L.; Shi, G.; Zhao, X.; Chen, Z. The Study of Olivine Inclusions in Diamonds from Liaoning, China and the Evaluation of Related Thermometers. Minerals 2024, 14, 850. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14090850
Qin L, Shi G, Zhao X, Chen Z. The Study of Olivine Inclusions in Diamonds from Liaoning, China and the Evaluation of Related Thermometers. Minerals. 2024; 14(9):850. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14090850
Chicago/Turabian StyleQin, Linli, Guanghai Shi, Xin Zhao, and Zhenyu Chen. 2024. "The Study of Olivine Inclusions in Diamonds from Liaoning, China and the Evaluation of Related Thermometers" Minerals 14, no. 9: 850. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14090850