 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 825–840 The Shoshonite-Absarokite-Picrite Karashoho Pipe, Uzbekistan: An Unusual Diamond Deposit in an Atypical...Expedition, State Geologic Committee, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2KM Diamond Exploration Ltd., West Vancouver...The diamondiferous Karashoho pipe was discovered in the Bukantau Mountains, Uzbekistan, in the 1990s and...shoshonite-absarokite-picritic rocks and shonkinite. The pipe is located within the southern Tian-Shan Hercynian...the pipe is 353 ± 13 Ma. By petrographic, mineralogical, and chemical compositions the Karashoho rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pyrope. In serpentinite from the Chinese Dabie Mountains, Xu et al. (2008) present thin section microphotographs...from the diamondiferous Karashoho pipe from the Bukantau mountains from Uzbekistan (Golovko and Kaminsky...which it breaks down to grossular, Ca3Al2Si3O12 (Surkov and Doroshev 1998). Grossular has been also extensively...(TEM) to study the breakdown of pure, natural grossular at 40 and 50 GPa according to the reaction: Ca3Al2Si3O12...appearance of a new, unquenchable garnet polymorph of grossular composition, but in situ X‑ray diffraction showed |
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