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A new variant of the olivine-clinopyroxene-spinel oxygen barometer was developed on the basis of the equilibrium 3CaMgSi2O6(Cpx) + 2Fe3O4(Spl) = 3CaMgSiO4(Ol) + 3Fe2SiO4(Ol) + O2. Oxygen fugacity was estimated for the mineral assemblages of meymechites, olivine-bearing rocks of the Guli intrusion, and olivine and clinopyroxene microphenocrysts from interstitial glasses in mantle xenoliths containing metal alloys from Sal Island, Cape Verde Archipelago. It was shown that oxygen fugacity may vary in mantlederived magmatic systems by 7–8 orders of magnitude. Thermodynamic analysis showed that the low water activity in the lower part of the subcratonic lithosphere prevents the formation of hydrocarbons even at the presence of elemental carbon and low oxygen fugacity. The most probable mechanism of diamond formation is the reduction of carbonate components in the composition of near-solidus melts coming into the lithosphere from ascending mantle plumes.
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Original Russian Text © I.D. Ryabchikov, L.N. Kogarko, 2010, published in Petrologiya, 2010, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 257–269.
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Ryabchikov, I.D., Kogarko, L.N. Redox potential of mantle magmatic systems. Petrology 18, 239–251 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591110030021
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