A metasomatic origin for late Archean eclogitic diamonds: Implications from internal morphology of diamonds and Re-Os and S isotope characteristics of their sulfide inclusions from the late Jurassic Klipspringer kimberlites
2004
SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY
The majority of the Klipspringer eclogitic diamonds display complex crystal zonation with zones of N- and H-rich cubic diamond alternating with zones of N-poor octahedral diamond. These growth features were likely related to different levels of carbon supersaturation in the diamond forming fluid(s). The diamonds are younger than their host rock and formed through differential flux of fluids into the eclogite.