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MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE
Volume 69, Issue 4, Pages 509-520Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1180/0026461056940267
Keywords
microdiamond; Raman; infrared spectroscopy; Dabic Mountains; Su-Lu region; China
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We have found > 10 in situ microdiamonds in thin sections of eclogites from the Dabie and Su-Lu regions of central eastern China since the first occurrence of microdiamond in eclogites from the Dabie Mountains (DMT) reported in 1992. The microdiamonds are found not only in the central part but also in the northern part of the EMT. Several free crystals have been recovered from the crushed eclogites from the central DMT. Most in situ microdiamonds are inclusions in garnets but a few larger ones are intergranular. Most of the diamondifierous eclogites in the central part of the DMT are associated with coesite. Most importantly, the observation of microdiamonds in northern Dabie lead us to question the supposition that this is a low-P metamorphic terrane. All the diamondiferous eclogites from both the north and central EMT are of continental affinity as demonstrated by their negative epsilon(Nd) values. Therefore, both the north and central eclogite belts in the EMT are considered to be from the deep subducted terrane. Five in situ microdiamonds and two free crystals are first reported in this paper. The dimensions of the in situ microdiamonds are 30-180 mu m and the free crystals are up to 400-700 mu m across. All the microdiamonds are confirmed as such by Raman spectroscopy. The results of an infrared spectroscopic investigation on two larger free crystals and two in situ microdiamonds show that all the microdiamonds from both the Dabie and Su-Lu regions are mixed types IaA and IaB diamonds and there is no indication of any synthetic microdiamonds in our samples because such synthetic microdiamonds are always rich in type 1b.
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