The discovery of kimberlites in antarctica extends the vast gondwanan cretaceous province

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2013

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Yaxley, Gregory
Kamenetsky, Vadim S.
Nichols, Geoffrey T.
Maas, Roland
Belousova, Elena
Rosenthal, Anja
Norman, Marc

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd

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Kimberlites are a volumetrically minor component of the Earth's volcanic record, but are very important as the major commercial source of diamonds and as the deepest samples of the Earth's mantle. They were predominantly emplaced from ≈2,100 Ma to ≈10

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Nature Communications

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