Kimberlit

Kimberlit dari Amerika Serikat.

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Peta mineral QEMSCAN yang menunjukkan kimberlit dari Afrika Selatan.

Kimberlit adalah sejenis batu vulkanik potasik (mengandung kalium) yang dikenal baik karena potensinya mengandung intan. Nama batu ini diilhami oleh nama kota kecil Kimberley di Afrika Selatan, di mana penemuan intan 83,5 karat pada tahun 1871 telah memicu perlombaan memburu intan, yang sebenarnya juga menciptakan Lubang Besar.

Referensi

• Bergman, S. C.; 1987: Lamproites and other potassium-rich igneous rocks: a review of their occurrences, mineralogy and geochemistry. In: Alkaline Igneous rocks, Fitton, J.G. and Upton, B.G.J (Eds.), Geological Society of London special publication No. 30. pp. 103–19
• Clement, C. R., 1982: A comparative geological study of some major kimberlite pipes in the Northern Cape and Orange free state. PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town.
• Clement, C. R., and Skinner, E.M.W. 1985: A textural-genetic classification of kimberlites. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa. pp. 403–409.
• Mitchell, R. H., 1995: Kimberlites, orangeites, and related rocks. Plenum Press, New York.
• Mitchell, R. H. (1991). Petrology of Lamproites. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-43556-X. 
• Smith, C. B., 1983: Lead, strontium, and neodymium isotopic evidence for sources of African Cretaceous kimberlite, Nature, 304, pp 51–54.
• Edwards, C. B., Howkins, J.B., 1966. Kimberlites in Tanganyika with special reference to the Mwadui occurrence. Econ. Geol., 61:537-554.
• Nixon, P.H., 1995. The morphology and nature of primary diamondiferous occurrences. Journal of Geochemical Exoloration, 53: 41-71
• Wagner, P. A., 1914: The diamond fields of South Africa; Transvaal Leader, Johannesberg.
• Woolley, A.R., Bergman, S.C., Edgar, AD, Le Bas, M.J., Mitchell, R.H., Rock, N.M.S. & Scott Smith, B.H., 1996. Classification of lamprophyres, lamproites, kimberlites, and the kalsilitic, melilitic, and leucitic rocks. The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol 34, Part 2. pp. 175–186.

Pranala luar

• Introduction to Kimberlite, EOS.UBC.ca
• Kimberlite hosted diamonds, em.gov.BC.ca
• Kimberlite image gallery. Diakses pada 10 Februari 2012.