Diamonds form in a variety of environments between subducted crust,lithospheric and deep mantle.Recently,deep source diamonds with inclusions of the high-pressure H2O-phase ice-VII were discovered.By correlating the p...Diamonds form in a variety of environments between subducted crust,lithospheric and deep mantle.Recently,deep source diamonds with inclusions of the high-pressure H2O-phase ice-VII were discovered.By correlating the pressures of ice-VII inclusions with those of other high-pressure inclusions,we assess quantitatively the pressures and temperatures of their entrapment.We show that the iceVII-bearing diamonds formed at depths down to 800±60 km but at temperatures 200–500 K below average mantle temperature that match the pressure-temperature conditions of decomposing dense hydrous mantle silicates.Our work presents strong evidence for coupled recycling of water and carbon in the deep mantle based on natural samples.展开更多
基金This work was supported through NSF EAR-1838330,EAR-1942042,Natural Science Foundation of China(41925017,41721002)and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WK2080000144)The Advanced Light Source is supported through contract no.DE-AC02-05CH11231.W.Wang acknowledges support from the UCL-Carnegie Postdoctoral Scholarship.We thank two anonymous referees for their thorough and constructive reviews,and Dr.Gaojun Li for his editorial handling.
文摘Diamonds form in a variety of environments between subducted crust,lithospheric and deep mantle.Recently,deep source diamonds with inclusions of the high-pressure H2O-phase ice-VII were discovered.By correlating the pressures of ice-VII inclusions with those of other high-pressure inclusions,we assess quantitatively the pressures and temperatures of their entrapment.We show that the iceVII-bearing diamonds formed at depths down to 800±60 km but at temperatures 200–500 K below average mantle temperature that match the pressure-temperature conditions of decomposing dense hydrous mantle silicates.Our work presents strong evidence for coupled recycling of water and carbon in the deep mantle based on natural samples.
