A collection of papers presented at a conference co-sponsored by the Deep Carbon Observatory has been published as a new special issue of Russian Geology and Geophysics (Volume 56, Issue 1-2, January-February 2015). The volume, "Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy: Link to Deep Carbon Cycle," was edited by Nikolay V. Sobolev, Nikolay L. Dobretsov, Eiji Ohtani, Lawrence A. Taylor, Hans-Peter Schertl, and Yuri N. Palyanov. It contains 26 articles covering topics in geology and the deep carbon cycle, crystallogenesis and experimental mineralogy, diamond crystallogenesis, and diamond and kimberlite magmatism.
The special issue of Russian Geology and Geophysics contains key papers presented at the Symposium “Deep Carbon Cycle: Mineralogy and Crystal Chemistry of Carbon-Bearing Compounds” held as part of the Third International Conference on Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy in Novosibirsk, Russia, from 27 September to 1 October 2013.
CONTENTS
Problems related to crystallogenesis and the deep carbon cycle. N.V. Sobolev, N.L. Dobretsov, E. Ohtani, L.A. Taylor, H.-P. Schertl, Yu.N. Palyanov, K.D. Litasov
GEOLOGY AND DEEP CARBON CYCLE
An integrate model of subduction: contributions from geology, experimental petrology, and seismic tomography. N.L. Dobretsov, I.Yu. Koulakov, K.D. Litasov, E.V. Kukarina
Geological, hydrogeochemical, and microbiological characteristics of the Oil site of the Uzon caldera (Kamchatka). N.L. Dobretsov, E.V. Lazareva, S.M. Zhmodik, A.V. Bryanskaya, V.V. Morozova, N.V. Tikunova, S.E. Peltek, G.A. Karpov, O.P. Taran, O.L. Ogorodnikova, I.S. Kirichenko, A.S. Rozanov, I.V. Babkin, O.V. Shuvaeva, E.P. Chebykin
Structural location, composition, and geodynamic nature of diamond-bearing metamorphic rocks of the Kokchetav subduction–collision zone of the Central Asian Fold Belt (northern Kazakhstan). M.M. Buslov, N.L. Dobretsov, G.M. Vovna, V.I. Kiselev
Carbonate, silicate, and sulfide melts: heterogeneity of the UHP mineral-forming media in calc-silicate rocks from the Kokchetav massif. A.O. Mikhno, A.V. Korsakov
Cathodoluminescence microscopy of the Kokchetav ultrahigh-pressure calcsilicate rocks: What can we learn from silicates, carbon-hosting minerals, and diamond? H.-P. Schertl, R.D. Neuser, A.M. Logvinova, R. Wirth, N.V. Sobolev
CRYSTALLOGENESIS AND EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY
Phase relations in carbonate systems at pressures and temperatures of lithospheric mantle: review of experimental data. A.F. Shatskiy, K.D. Litasov, Yu.N. Palyanov
The role of rocks saturated with metallic iron in the formation of ferric carbonate–silicate melts: experimental modeling under PT-conditions of lithospheric mantle. Yu.V. Bataleva, Yu.N. Palyanov, A.G. Sokol, Yu.M. Borzdov, O.A. Bayukov
The crystal structure of girvasite, NaCa2Mg3(PO4)3(CO3)(H2O)6, a complex phosphate-carbonate hydrate based upon electroneutral heteropolyhedral layers. S.V. Krivovichev, A.P. Chernyatieva, S.N. Britvin, V.N. Yakovenchuk
First-principles calculations of the equations of state and relative stability of iron carbides at the Earth’s core pressures. K.D. Litasov, Z.I. Popov, P.N. Gavryushkin, S.G. Ovchinnikov, A.S. Fedorov
The equations of state of forsterite, wadsleyite, ringwoodite, akimotoite, MgSiO3-perovskite, and postperovskite and phase diagram for the Mg2SiO4 system at pressures of up to 130 GPa. P.I. Dorogokupets, A.M. Dymshits, T.S. Sokolova, B.S. Danilov, K.D. Litasov
Sound velocity measurement by inelastic X-ray scattering at high pressure and temperature by resistive heating diamond anvil cell. E. Ohtani, K. Mibe, T. Sakamaki, S. Kamada, S. Takahashi, H. Fukui, S. Tsutsui, A.Q.R. Baron
DIAMOND CRYSTALLOGENESIS
Conditions of diamond crystallization in kimberlite melt: experimental data. Yu.N. Palyanov, A.G. Sokol, A.F. Khokhryakov, A.N. Kruk
Interface partition coefficients of trace elements in carbonate–silicate parental media for diamonds and paragenetic inclusions (experiments at 7.0–8.5 GPa). A.V. Kuzyura, Yu.A. Litvin, T. Jeffries
Typomorphic features of graphite inclusions in diamond: experimental data. A.F. Khokhryakov, D.V. Nechaev
Isotope fractionation of carbon during diamond crystallization in model systems. V.N. Reutsky, Yu.N. Palyanov, Yu.M. Borzdov, A.G. Sokol
DIAMOND AND KIMBERLITE MAGMATISM
Conditions of kimberlite magma generation: experimental constraints. A.G. Sokol, A.N. Kruk
Paragenesis and complex zoning of olivine macrocrysts from unaltered kimberlite of the Udachnaya-East pipe, Yakutia: relationship with the kimberlite formation conditions and evolution. N.V. Sobolev, A.V. Sobolev, A.A. Tomilenko, S.V. Kovyazin, V.G. Batanova, D.V. Kuz’min
Carbonatite metasomatism of peridotite lithospheric mantle: implications for diamond formation and carbonatite-kimberlite magmatism. N.P. Pokhilenko, A.M. Agashev, K.D. Litasov, L.N. Pokhilenko
Evidence for phase transitions in mineral inclusions in superdeep diamonds of the São Luiz deposit (Brazil). D.A. Zedgenizov, V.S. Shatsky, A.V. Panin, O.V. Evtushenko, A.L. Ragozin, H. Kagi
A unique diamondiferous peridotite xenolith from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia: role of subduction in diamond formation. A.M. Logvinova, L.A. Taylor, E.N. Fedorova, A.P. Yelisseyev, R. Wirth, G. Howarth, V.N. Reutsky, N.V. Sobolev
An EBSD study of olivine inclusions in Siberian diamonds: evidence for syngenetic growth? R.D. Neuser, H.-P. Schertl, A.M. Logvinova, N.V. Sobolev
Multiple growth events in diamonds with cloudy microinclusions from the Mir kimberlite pipe: evidence from the systematics of optically active defects. S.Yu. Skuzovatov, D.A. Zedgenizov, A.L. Rakevich, V.S. Shatsky, E.F. Martynovich
FTIR mapping of diamond plates of eclogitic and peridotitic xenoliths from the Nyurbinskaya pipe, Yakutia: genetic implications. Z.V. Spetsius, I.N. Bogush, O.E. Kovalchuk
Defects in cubic diamonds from the placers in the northeastern Siberian platform: results of IR microspectrometry. S.V. Titkov, A.A. Shiryaev, N.N. Zudina, N.G. Zudin, Yu.P. Solodova