Highly saline fluids from a subducting slab as the source for fluid-rich diamonds

Yaakov Weiss (), John McNeill, D. Graham Pearson, Geoff M. Nowell and Chris J. Ottley
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Yaakov Weiss: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
John McNeill: Durham University
D. Graham Pearson: University of Alberta
Geoff M. Nowell: Durham University
Chris J. Ottley: Durham University

Nature, 2015, vol. 524, issue 7565, 339-342

Abstract: Geochemical data from inclusions within diamonds from the Northwest Territories, Canada, indicate that saline fluids are parental to silicic and carbonatitic deep mantle melts, via fluid–rock interaction; a subducting plate under western North America is suggested to be the source of the fluids.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/nature14857

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