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ISSN 1028-334X, Doklady Earth Sciences, 2009, Vol. 426, No. 4, pp. 695–698. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2009.
Original Russian Text © A.A. Tomilenko, S.V. Kovyazin, L.N. Pokhilenko, N.V. Sobolev, 2009, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2009, Vol. 426, No. 4, pp. 533–536.
In recent years, considerable attention has been
given to study fluid and redox regimes of the upper
mantle [1–3]; however, direct evidence on the fluid
composition has been insignificant until now. Of spe-
cial interest is the study of fluid and melt inclusions in
minerals of mantle xenoliths from kimberlite pipes,
which provide direct data on the composition and
behavior of fluid in the upper mantle. Despite great
interest in such investigations, data on fluid and melt
inclusions in minerals of mantle xenoliths are severely
limited [4–10].
This study describes new results of microthermom-
etry and micro Raman and infrared (IR) spectroscopy
of primary fluid and syngenetic crystalline inclusions
and quartz paramorph after coesite in garnet of the dia-
mondiferous eclogite xenolith from the Udachnaya
kimberlite pipe, Yakutia (table). This pipe, the largest
diamond deposit, is widely known due to systematic
investigation of the mantle xenoliths, among which
more than 150 xenoliths of diamondiferous eclogite
were studied [11].
Measurements were taken by means of an OMARS
89 Raman microspectrometer and VERTEX 70 FTIR
spectrometer at the Institute of Geology and Mineral-
ogy, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Novosibirsk.
All fluid inclusions ranging from a few to 20 μm in
size were partially decrepitated, which is indicated by a
halo of tiny daughter inclusions around them. The
inclusions are commonly irregularly distributed in the
garnet grain; however, compact clusters of fluid and
crystalline inclusions are abundant in the grain cores.
After freezing the liquid phase of fluid inclusions,
the formed solid phases were melted at –40°C and the
last solid phase disappeared at –33°C (Fig. 1). In the IR
spectra of the matter of these inclusions in the region
3000–2800 cm
–1
, there are strong absorption bands at
2950, 2925, 2870, and 2857 cm
–1
, which correspond to
C–H stretching vibrations of the CH
2
and CH
3
groups
(Fig. 2). According to the phase transformation and
melting temperature of solid phases formed at freezing
and IR data, these phases are composed of a mixture of
high-molecular hydrocarbons.
Primary Hydrocarbon Inclusions
in Garnet of Diamondiferous Eclogite
from the Udachanaya Kimberlite Pipe, Yakutia
A. A. Tomilenko, S. V. Kovyazin, L. N. Pokhilenko,
and Academician N. V. Sobolev
Received December 12, 2008
DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X09040412
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch,
Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3,
Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
GEOCHEMISTRY
Corresponding author: A.A. Tomilenko. E-mail: tomilen@uiggm.nsc.ru
Chemical composition (wt %) of minerals in eclogite xeno-
lith from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, sample Uv-464/86
Component Garnet Clinopyroxene
SiO
2
39.0 54.7
TiO
2
0.46 0.3
FeO* 22.4 7.4
Al
2
O
3
21.0 6.4
Cr
2
O
3
0.05 0.41
MgO 6.9 10.1
MnO 0.42 0.06
CaO 9.3 16.2
Na
2
O 0.16 4.2
K
2
O 0.01 0.03
Total 99.7 99.8
Mg# 35.1 69.3
Ca# 24.5 44.7
* All Fe as FeO.