Novel experiments shed new light on the generation of kimberlite magmas

Traces of fluids that are involved in diamond formation can be found as inclusions in them. Yet, so far the characteristics of these fluids are poorly understood. In a recent article in Science Advances a team of researchers from Macquarie University, Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Mainz describe novel laboratory experiments that show that sediments, released from subducting slabs, react with peridotites to produce the observed fluids.

Read more about it in press releases from Frankfurt and Mainz.