Проблемы поиска и оценки коренных алмазоносных месторождений за последние два десятилетия приобрели особую актуальность в алмазодобывающей индустрии. За этот период значительно сократилось количество обнаруженных алмазоносных кимберлитовых тел, что наводит на мысль о необходимости пересмотра и совершенствования существующих методов и подходов их поиска. Для разработки более эффективных методов поиска и оценки месторождений алмаза важно понимать процессы, при котором образовались не только эти месторождения, но и сами алмазы.

Экспериментальное моделирование процессов фазообразования в зонах субдукции и в субконтинентальной литосфере при высоких P,T-параметрах является актуальным направлением в минералогии, петрологии и геохимии мантии Земли. По современным представлениям, реакции декарбонатизации являются важным источником флюида в мантии. При декарбонатизации помимо CO2-флюида образуются различные силикаты (Newton, Sharp, 1975; Wyllie, 1979; Eggler, 1978; Wyllie et al., 1983; Luth, 1995; Koziol, Newton, 1998; Knoche et al., 1999; Pal’yanov et al., 2005), среди которых особую роль играют гранаты.

Viscosity is one of the important material properties of the Earth, controlling tectonic and dynamic processes such as mantle convection, isostasy, and glacial rebound. Yet it remains a poorly resolved parameter and basic questions such as whether the planet's response to loading is linear or non-linear, or what are its depth and lateral variations remain uncertain.

PART I: MARINE STUDIES

An Ultramafic Lift at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Successive Stages of Magmatism in Serpentinized Peridotites from the 15°N Region. Mathilde Cannat and lohn F Casey 

Gabbroie Dikelets in Serpentinized Peridotites from the Mid-Atlanti Ridge at 23°20'N P. Tartarotti, M. Cannat and C. Me el 

Mafic and Ultramafic Intrusions into Upper Mantle Peridotites from Fast Spreading Centers of the Easter Micropiate (South East Pacific) M. Constantin, R. Hekinian, D. Ackermand and P. Stoffers

This volume was edited by Russell I. Hemley in preparation for a short course by the same title, organized together with Ho-kwang Mao and sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America, December 4-6, 1998 on the campus of the University of California at Davis. This is number 37 in the Reviews in Mineralogy series, begun in 1974 and continuing with vigor, at least into the near future, with volumes on "Uranium Mineralogy and Geochemistry," on "Sulfate Mineralogy," and on "Natural Zeolites" planned for 1999 and 2000. Volume 36 (1056 pagesl), "Planetary Materials," edited by 1.1. Papike, appeared earlier this year, and it is certainly not unrelated to the subject of this volume on the physics and chemistry of the deep interior of one of the planets. Rus Hemley has highlighted Reviews in Mineralogy Volumes 14, 18, 20 and 29 as particularly relevant to the subject matter of "Ultrahigh-Pressure Mineralogy."

Part I: T hermal Strucure of Deep Earth 1

1 Melting of Fe Alloys and the Thermal Structure of the Core

2 Temperature of the Lower Mantle and Core Based on Ab Initio Mineral Physics Data

3 Heat Transfer in the Core and Mantle

4 Thermal State and Evolution of the Earth Core and Deep Mantle

Part II: S tructures, Anisotropy, and Plasticity of Deep Earth Materials 

5 Crystal Structures of Core Materials

In the foreword of the volume Mantle Metasomatism by Menzies & Hawkesworth (1987), Boettcher stated that the concept of mantle metasomatism has been of immense heuristic value for Earth scientists. At that time, metasomatism was still strongly related to allochemical metamorphism, where chemical composition of the rock is changed by the additional or removal of material.

Our knowledge of the Earth's magnetic field has developed over many centuries, originating from some of the earliest scientific investigations. The first scientific treatise ever written is generally recognized as being the geomagnetic text Epistola de Magnete written by Petrus Peregrinus in 1269. This was followed more than three centuries later by the classical work De Magnete by William Gilbert in 1600.

Монография посвящена проблемам петрологии высокомагнезиальных мантийных расплавов, ключевых для геологии раннего докембрия. Она базируется на результатах экспериментальных работ и данных, полученных изотопногеохимическими, инструментальным нейтронно-активационным, рентгено-флюоресцентным, микрозондовым и другими методами.