Rais Latypov, Sofya Chistyakova, Richard A. Hornsey, Gelu Costin & Mauritz van der Merwe Abstract Several recent studies have argued that large, long-lived and molten magma chambers may not […]
Anton Viljoen, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Andrea Giuliani, Angus Fitzpayne, Gelu Costin Abstract Sierra Leone contains two Jurassic-aged diamondiferous kimberlite clusters, namely Koidu and Tongo-Tonguma (hereafter referred to as Tongo), […]
Christopher Jenkins, James E. Mungall, Michael L. Zientek, Gelu Costin, and Zhuo-Sen Yao The origin and parental magma for layered cumulates in the Lower Banded series (LBS) and the J-M […]
Authors: Andy Moore, Gelu Costin, Alexander Proyer Abstract Models for a xenocryst origin for kimberlite olivines emphasise the similarity between their core compositions and those in mantle peridotites. While this permits a […]
Ming Tang, Cin-Ty Lee, Wei-Qiang Ji, Rui Wang, Gelu Costin Abstract Porphyry ore deposits, Earth’s most important resources of copper, molybdenum, and rhenium, are strongly associated with felsic magmas showing […]
B. N. Moine, N. Bolfan-Casanova, I. B. Radu, D. A. Ionov, G. Costin, A. V. Korsakov, A. V. Golovin, O. B. Oleinikov, E. Deloule & J. Y. Cottin Abstract Trace […]
Yudovskaya, M. A., Costin, G., Sluzhenikin, S. F., Kinnaird, J. A., Ueckermann, H., & Abramova, V. D. Mafic sills of the Marginal Zone are widespread within the footwall of […]
Roger N Scoon, Gelu Costin, Andrew Mitchell, Bertrand Moine Abstract The Platreef Unit is a deceptively complex sequence of layered cumulates located in the northern limb of the 2.055 Ga-old Bushveld Complex. The […]
Rais Latypov, Sofya Chistyakova, Gelu Costin, Olivier Namur, Steve Barnes & Willem Kruger Abstract The formation of some Earth’s monomineralic igneous rocks appears to be prohibited by constraints imposed by […]
Ming Tang, Cin-Ty A. Lee, Gelu Costin, Heidi E. Höfer Abstract The Earth’s continental crust is thought to originate from melting of the mantle, but it is too felsic and […]
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