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Dr Jeff Harris
- Honorary Research Fellow (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
email:
Jeff.Harris@glasgow.ac.uk
Geographical and Earth Sciences, East Quadrangle, Main Building
Publications
2023
Meyer, N. A., Stachel, T., Pearson, D. G., Stern, R. A., Harris, J. W. and Walter, M. J. (2023) Diamonds reveal subducted slab harzburgite in the lower mantle. Geology, 51(3), pp. 238-241. (doi: 10.1130/g50675.1)
2022
Pasqualetto, L., Nestola, F., Jacob, D. E., Pamato, M. G., Oliveira, B., Perritt, S., Chinn, I., Nimis, P., Milani, S. and Harris, J. W. (2022) Protogenetic clinopyroxene inclusions in diamond and Nd diffusion modeling—Implications for diamond dating. Geology, 50(9), pp. 1038-1042. (doi: 10.1130/g50273.1)
2021
Weiss, Y., Kiro, Y., Class, C., Winckler, G., Harris, J. W. and Goldstein, S. L. (2021) Helium in diamonds unravels over a billion years of craton metasomatism. Nature Communications, 12, 2667. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22860-3) (PMID:33976163) (PMCID:PMC8113505)
2020
Regier, M. E., Pearson, D. G., Stachel, T., Luth, R. W., Stern, R. A. and Harris, J. W. (2020) The lithospheric-to-lower-mantle carbon cycle recorded in superdeep diamonds. Nature, 585(7824), pp. 234-238. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2676-z) (PMID:32908266)
Anzolini, C., Marquardt, K., Stagno, V., Bindi, L., Frost, D. J., Pearson, D. G., Harris, J. W., Hemley, R. J. and Nestola, F. (2020) Evidence for complex iron oxides in the deep mantle from FeNi(Cu) inclusions in superdeep diamond. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(35), pp. 21088-21094. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004269117) (PMID:32817475)
Dubrovinsky, L., Harris, J. W., Stachel, T., Kurnosov, A., Kiseeva, E. S., Marquardt, H., Satta, N. and Koemets, I. (2020) Elastic properties of majoritic garnet inclusions in diamonds and the seismic signature of pyroxenites in the Earth's upper mantle. American Mineralogist, 105(7), pp. 984-991. (doi: 10.2138/am-2020-7136CCBY)
Howell, D. et al. (2020) Deep carbon through time: Earth’s diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 275, pp. 99-122. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.02.011)
2019
Nestola, F. et al. (2019) Diamond-inclusion system recording old deep lithosphere conditions at Udachnaya (Siberia). Scientific Reports, 9, 12586. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-48778-x) (PMID:31467318) (PMCID:PMC6715805)
2018
Motsamai, T., Harris, J. W., Stachel, T., Pearson, D. G. and Armstrong, J. (2018) Mineral inclusions in diamonds from Karowe Mine, Botswana: super-deep sources for super-sized diamonds? Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 169-180. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0604-9)
Navon, O., Stachel, T., Stern, R.A. and Harris, J.W. (2018) Carbon and nitrogen systematics in nitrogen-rich ultradeep diamonds from San Luiz, Brazil. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 301-310. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0576-9)
Phillips, D., Harris, J. W., de Wit, M. C.J. and Matchan, E. L. (2018) Provenance history of detrital diamond deposits, West Coast of Namaqualand, South Africa. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 259-273. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0568-9)
Seitz, H.-M., Brey, G. P., Harris, J. W., Durali-Müller, S., Ludwig, T. and Höfer, H. E. (2018) Ferropericlase inclusions in ultradeep diamonds from Sao Luiz (Brazil): High Li abundances and diverse Li-isotope and trace element compositions suggest an origin from a subduction mélange. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112, s291-s300. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0572-0)
Timmerman, S., Honda, M., Phillips, D., Jaques, A. L. and Harris, J. W. (2018) Noble gas geochemistry of fluid inclusions in South African diamonds: implications for the origin of diamond-forming fluids. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 181-195. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0603-x)
Weiss, Y., Navon, O., Goldstein, S. L. and Harris, J. W. (2018) Inclusions in diamonds constrain thermo-chemical conditions during Mesozoic metasomatism of the Kaapvaal cratonic mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 491, pp. 134-147. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.014)
Timmerman, S., Jaques, A.L., Weiss, Y. and Harris, J.W. (2018) N-δ 13 C-inclusion profiles of cloudy diamonds from Koffiefontein: Evidence for formation by continuous Rayleigh fractionation and multiple fluids. Chemical Geology, 483, pp. 31-46. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.02.024)
2017
McDonald, I., Hughes, H. S.R., Butler, I. B., Harris, J. W. and Muir, D. (2017) Homogenisation of sulphide inclusions within diamonds: a new approach to diamond inclusion geochemistry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 216, pp. 335-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.039)
Koornneef, J. M., Gress, M. U., Chinn, I. L., Jelsma, H. A., Harris, J. W. and Davies, G. R. (2017) Archaean and Proterozoic diamond growth from contrasting styles of large-scale magmatism. Nature Communications, 8, 648. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00564-x) (PMID:28935863) (PMCID:PMC5608721)
Palot, M., Pearson, D.G., Stachel, T., Stern, R.A., Le Pioufle, A., Gurney, J.J. and Harris, J.W. (2017) The transition zone as a host for recycled volatiles: Evidence from nitrogen and carbon isotopes in ultra-deep diamonds from Monastery and Jagersfontein (South Africa). Chemical Geology, 466, pp. 733-749. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.07.023)
2015
Ickert, R. B. , Stachel, T., Stern, R. A. and Harris, J. W. (2015) Extreme 18O-enrichment in majorite constrains a crustal origin of transition zone diamonds. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 1(1), pp. 65-74. (doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.1507)
2014
Viljoen, K.S., Harris, J.W., Ivanic, T., Richardson, S.H. and Gray, K. (2014) Trace element chemistry of peridotitic garnets in diamonds from the Premier (Cullinan) and Finsch kimberlites, South Africa: contrasting styles of mantle metasomatism. Lithos, 208-09, pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.08.010)
Palot, M., Pearson, D.G., Stern, R.A., Stachel, T. and Harris, J. (2014) Isotopic constraints on the nature and circulation of deep mantle C–H–O–N fluids: Carbon and nitrogen systematics within ultra-deep diamonds from Kankan (Guinea). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 139, pp. 26-46. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.04.027)
Nestola, F., Nimis, P., Angel, R.J., Milani, S., Bruno, M., Prencipe, M. and Harris, J.W. (2014) Olivine with diamond-imposed morphology included in diamonds: syngenesis or protogenesis? International Geology Review, 56(13), pp. 1658-1667. (doi: 10.1080/00206814.2014.956153)
2007
Thomassot, E., Cartigny, P., Harris, J. and Viljoen, K.S.F. (2007) Methane-related diamond crystallization in the Earth's mantle: Stable isotope evidences from a single diamond-bearing xenolith. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257, pp. 362-371. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.020)
2006
Tappert, R., Stachel, T., Harris, J., Muehlenbachs, K. and Brey, G.F. (2006) Placer diamonds from Brazil: Indicators of the composition of the Earth's mantle and the distance to their kimberlitic sources. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 101, pp. 453-470.
Tomlinson, E.L., Jones, A.P. and Harris, J.W. (2006) Co-existing fluid and silicate inclusions in mantle diamond. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 250, pp. 581-595. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.005)
Westerlund, K.J., Shirey, S.B., Richardson, S.H., Carlson, R.W., Gurney, J.J. and Harris, J. (2006) A subduction wedge origin for Paleoarchean peridotitic diamonds and harzburgites from the Panda kimberlite, Slave craton: evidence from Re-Os isotope systematics. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 152, pp. 275-294. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-006-0101-8)
2005
Kellie, J. et al. (2005) The selection and performance of diamond radiators used in coherent bremsstrahlung experiments. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 545(1-2), pp. 164-180. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.12.042)
Brenker, F.E. et al. (2005) Detection of a Ca-rich lithology in the Earth's deep (>300 km) convecting mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236, pp. 579-587. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.021)
Gautheron, C., Cartigny, P., Moreira, M., Harris, J. and Allegre, C.J. (2005) Evidence for a mantle component shown by rare gases, C and N isotopes in polycrystalline diamonds from Orapa (Botswana). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 240, pp. 559-572. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.060)
Nasdala, L., Hofmeister, W., Harris, J. and Glinnemann, J. (2005) Growth zoning and strain patterns inside diamond crystals as revealed by Raman maps. American Mineralogist, 90, pp. 745-748. (doi: 10.2138/am.2005.1690)
Stachel, T., Brey, G.P. and Harris, J. (2005) Inclusions in sublithospheric diamonds: Glimpses of deep Earth. Elements, 1, pp. 73-78.
Tappert, R., Stachel, T., Harris, J., Muehlenbachs, K., Ludwig, T. and Brey, G.P. (2005) Diamonds from Jagersfontein (South Africa): messengers from the sublithospheric mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 150, pp. 505-522. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-005-0035-6)
Tappert, R., Stachel, T., Harris, J., Muehlenbachs, K., Ludwig, T. and Brey, G.P. (2005) Subducting oceanic crust: The source of deep diamonds. Geology, 33, pp. 565-568. (doi: 10.1130/G21637.1)
2004
Brey, G.P., Bulatov, V., Girnis, A., Harris, J. and Stachel, T. (2004) Ferropericlase - a lower mantle phase in the upper mantle. Lithos, 77, pp. 655-663. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.03.013)
Burgess, R., Kiviets, G.B. and Harris, J. (2004) Ar-Ar age determinations of eclogitic clinopyroxene and garnet inclusions in diamonds from the Venetia and Orapa kimberlites. Lithos, 77, pp. 113-124. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.03.048)
Cartigny, P., Stachel, T., Harris, J. and Javoy, M. (2004) Constraining diamond metasomatic growth using C- and N-stable isotopes: examples from Namibia. Lithos, 77, pp. 359-373. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.03.024)
Deines, P. and Harris, J. (2004) New insights into the occurrence of C-13-depleted carbon in the mantle from two closely associated kimberlites: Letlhakane and Orapa, Botswana. Lithos, 77, pp. 125-142. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.04.015)
Harris, J., Stachel, T., Leost, I. and Brey, G.P. (2004) Peridotitic diamonds from Namibia: constraints on the composition and evolution of their mantle source. Lithos, 77, pp. 209-223. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.03.028)
Honda, M., Phillips, D., Harris, J. and Yatsevich, I. (2004) Unusual noble gas compositions in polycrystalline diamonds: preliminary results from the Jwaneng kimberlite, Botswana. Chemical Geology, 203, pp. 347-358. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.10.012)
Izraeli, E.S., Harris, J. and Navon, O. (2004) Fluid and mineral inclusions in cloudy diamonds from Koffiefontein, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, pp. 2561-2575. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2003.09.005)
McCammon, C.A., Stachel, T. and Harris, J. (2004) Iron oxidation state in lower mantle mineral assemblages - II. Inclusions in diamonds from Kankan, Guinea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 222, pp. 423-434. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.03.019)
Phillips, D., Harris, J. and Kiviets, G.B. (2004) Ar-40/Ar-39 analyses of clinopyroxene inclusions in African diamonds: Implications for source ages of detrital diamonds. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, pp. 151-165. (doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00411-3)
Phillips, D., Harris, J. and Viljoen, K. (2004) Mineral chemistry and thermobarometry of inclusions from De Beers Pool diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa. Lithos, 77, pp. 155-179. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.04.005)
Richardson, S.H., Shirey, S.B. and Harris, J. (2004) Episodic diamond genesis at Jwaneng, Botswana, and implications for Kaapvaal craton evolution. Lithos, 77, pp. 143-154. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.04.027)
Shirey, S.B., Richardson, S.H. and Harris, J. (2004) Integrated models of diamond formation and craton evolution. Lithos, 77, pp. 923-944. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.04.018)
Stachel, T., Aulbach, S., Brey, G.P., Harris, J.W., Leost, I., Tappert, R. and Viljoen, K.S. (2004) The trace element composition of silicate inclusions in diamonds: a review. Lithos, 77, pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.03.027)
Stachel, T., Viljoen, K.S., McDade, P. and Harris, J. (2004) Diamondiferous lithospheric roots along the western margin of the Kalahari Craton - the peridotitic inclusion suite in diamonds from Orapa and Jwaneng. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 147, pp. 32-47. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-003-0535-1)
2003
Leost, I., Stachel, T., Brey, G.P., Harris, J.W. and Ryabchikov, I.D. (2003) Diamond formation and source carbonation: mineral associations in diamonds from Namibia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145, pp. 15-24. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-003-0442-5)
Cartigny, P., Harris, J.W., Taylor, A., Davies, R. and Javoy, M. (2003) On the possibility of a kinetic fractionation of nitrogen stable isotopes during natural diamond growth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67, pp. 1571-1576. (doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00028-0)
Glinnemann, J., Kusaka, K. and Harris, J. (2003) Oriented graphite single-crystal inclusions in diamond. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 218, pp. 733-739. (doi: 10.1524/zkri.218.11.733.2030)
Nasdala, L., Brenker, F.R., Glinnemann, J., Hofmeister, W., Gasparik, T., Harris, J.W., Stachel, T. and Reese, I. (2003) Spectroscopic 2D-tomography: Residual pressure and strain around mineral inclusions in diamonds. European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, pp. 931-935. (doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2003/0015-0931)
Seitz, H.M., Brey, G.P., Stachel, T. and Harris, J.W. (2003) Li abundances in inclusions in diamonds from the upper and lower mantle. Chemical Geology, 201, pp. 307-318. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.08.001)
Shirey, S.B., Harris, J., Richardson, S.H., Fouch, M., James, D.E., Cartigny, P.,, Deines, P. and Viljoen, F. (2003) Regional patterns in the paragenesis and age of inclusions in diamond, diamond composition, and the lithospheric seismic structure of Southern Africa. Lithos, 71, pp. 243-258. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2003.07.007)
Stachel, T., Harris, J., Tappert, R. and Brey, G.P. (2003) Peridotitic diamonds from the Slave and the Kaapvaal cratons - similarities and differences based on a preliminary data set. Lithos, 71, pp. 489-503. (doi: 10.1016/S0024-4937(03)00127-0)
2002
Aulbach, S., Stachel, T., Viljoen, K.S., Brey, G.P. and Harris, J. (2002) Eclogitic and websteritic diamond sources beneath the Limpopo Belt - is slab-melting the link? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 143, pp. 56-70. (doi: 10.1007/s00410-001-0331-8)
Brenker, F.E., Stachel, T. and Harris, J. (2002) Exhumation of lower mantle inclusions in diamond: ATEM investigation of retrograde phase transitions, reactions and exsolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 198, pp. 1-9.
Burgess, R., Layzelle, E., Turner, G. and Harris, J. (2002) Constraints on the age and halogen composition of mantle fluids in Siberian coated diamonds. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 197, pp. 193-203.
Farquhar, J., Wing, B.A., McKeegan, K.D., Harris, J., Cartigny, P. and Thiemens, M.H. (2002) Mass-independent sulfur of inclusions in diamond and sulfur recycling on early earth. Science, 298, pp. 2369-2372. (doi: 10.1126/science.1078617)
Kunz, M., Gillet, P., Fiquet, G., Sautter, V., Graafsma, H., Conrad, P. and Harris, J. (2002) Combined in situ X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy on majoritic garnet inclusions in diamonds. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 198, pp. 485-493. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00527-7)
Shirey, S.B., Harris, J., Richardson, S.H., Fouch, M.J., James, D.E., Cartigny, P., Deines, P. and Viljoen, F. (2002) Diamond genesis, seismic structure, and evolution of the Kaapvaal-Zimbabwe craton. Science, 297, pp. 1683-1686.
Stachel, T., Harris, J., Aulbach, S. and Deines, P. (2002) Kankan diamonds (Guinea) III: delta C-13 and nitrogen characteristics of deep diamonds. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142, pp. 465-475.
2001
Cartigny, P., Harris, J. and Javoy, M. (2001) Diamond genesis, mantle fractionations and mantle nitrogen content: a study of delta C-13-N concentrations in diamonds. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 185, pp. 85-98.
Deines, P., Viljoen, F. and Harris, J. (2001) Implications of the carbon isotope and mineral inclusion record for the formation of diamonds in the mantle underlying a mobile belt: Venetia, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65, pp. 813-838.
Izraeli, E.S., Harris, J. and Navon, O. (2001) Brine inclusions in diamonds: a new upper mantle fluid. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 187, pp. 323-332. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00291-6)
Richardson, S.H., Shirey, S.B., Harris, J. and Carlson, R.W. (2001) Archean subduction recorded by Re-Os isotopes in eclogitic sulfide inclusions in Kimberley diamonds. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 191, pp. 257-266. (doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00419-8)
Shirey, S.B., Carlson, R.W., Richardson, S.H., Menzies, A., Gurney, J.J., Pearson, D.G., Harris, J. and Wiechert, U. (2001) Archean emplacement of eclogitic components into the lithospheric mantle during formation of the Kaapvaal Craton. Geophysical Research Letters, 28, pp. 2509-2512. (doi: 10.1029/2000GL012589)
1997
Harris, J., Hutchison, M., Hursthouse, M.,, Light, M. and Harte, B., (1997) A new tetragonal silicate mineral occurring as inclusions in lower-mantle diamonds. Nature, 387(6632), pp. 486-488. (doi: 10.1038/387486a0)
Articles
Meyer, N. A., Stachel, T., Pearson, D. G., Stern, R. A., Harris, J. W. and Walter, M. J. (2023) Diamonds reveal subducted slab harzburgite in the lower mantle. Geology, 51(3), pp. 238-241. (doi: 10.1130/g50675.1)
Pasqualetto, L., Nestola, F., Jacob, D. E., Pamato, M. G., Oliveira, B., Perritt, S., Chinn, I., Nimis, P., Milani, S. and Harris, J. W. (2022) Protogenetic clinopyroxene inclusions in diamond and Nd diffusion modeling—Implications for diamond dating. Geology, 50(9), pp. 1038-1042. (doi: 10.1130/g50273.1)
Weiss, Y., Kiro, Y., Class, C., Winckler, G., Harris, J. W. and Goldstein, S. L. (2021) Helium in diamonds unravels over a billion years of craton metasomatism. Nature Communications, 12, 2667. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22860-3) (PMID:33976163) (PMCID:PMC8113505)
Regier, M. E., Pearson, D. G., Stachel, T., Luth, R. W., Stern, R. A. and Harris, J. W. (2020) The lithospheric-to-lower-mantle carbon cycle recorded in superdeep diamonds. Nature, 585(7824), pp. 234-238. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2676-z) (PMID:32908266)
Anzolini, C., Marquardt, K., Stagno, V., Bindi, L., Frost, D. J., Pearson, D. G., Harris, J. W., Hemley, R. J. and Nestola, F. (2020) Evidence for complex iron oxides in the deep mantle from FeNi(Cu) inclusions in superdeep diamond. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(35), pp. 21088-21094. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004269117) (PMID:32817475)
Dubrovinsky, L., Harris, J. W., Stachel, T., Kurnosov, A., Kiseeva, E. S., Marquardt, H., Satta, N. and Koemets, I. (2020) Elastic properties of majoritic garnet inclusions in diamonds and the seismic signature of pyroxenites in the Earth's upper mantle. American Mineralogist, 105(7), pp. 984-991. (doi: 10.2138/am-2020-7136CCBY)
Howell, D. et al. (2020) Deep carbon through time: Earth’s diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 275, pp. 99-122. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.02.011)
Nestola, F. et al. (2019) Diamond-inclusion system recording old deep lithosphere conditions at Udachnaya (Siberia). Scientific Reports, 9, 12586. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-48778-x) (PMID:31467318) (PMCID:PMC6715805)
Motsamai, T., Harris, J. W., Stachel, T., Pearson, D. G. and Armstrong, J. (2018) Mineral inclusions in diamonds from Karowe Mine, Botswana: super-deep sources for super-sized diamonds? Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 169-180. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0604-9)
Navon, O., Stachel, T., Stern, R.A. and Harris, J.W. (2018) Carbon and nitrogen systematics in nitrogen-rich ultradeep diamonds from San Luiz, Brazil. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 301-310. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0576-9)
Phillips, D., Harris, J. W., de Wit, M. C.J. and Matchan, E. L. (2018) Provenance history of detrital diamond deposits, West Coast of Namaqualand, South Africa. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 259-273. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0568-9)
Seitz, H.-M., Brey, G. P., Harris, J. W., Durali-Müller, S., Ludwig, T. and Höfer, H. E. (2018) Ferropericlase inclusions in ultradeep diamonds from Sao Luiz (Brazil): High Li abundances and diverse Li-isotope and trace element compositions suggest an origin from a subduction mélange. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112, s291-s300. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0572-0)
Timmerman, S., Honda, M., Phillips, D., Jaques, A. L. and Harris, J. W. (2018) Noble gas geochemistry of fluid inclusions in South African diamonds: implications for the origin of diamond-forming fluids. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 181-195. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0603-x)
Weiss, Y., Navon, O., Goldstein, S. L. and Harris, J. W. (2018) Inclusions in diamonds constrain thermo-chemical conditions during Mesozoic metasomatism of the Kaapvaal cratonic mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 491, pp. 134-147. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.014)
Timmerman, S., Jaques, A.L., Weiss, Y. and Harris, J.W. (2018) N-δ 13 C-inclusion profiles of cloudy diamonds from Koffiefontein: Evidence for formation by continuous Rayleigh fractionation and multiple fluids. Chemical Geology, 483, pp. 31-46. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.02.024)
McDonald, I., Hughes, H. S.R., Butler, I. B., Harris, J. W. and Muir, D. (2017) Homogenisation of sulphide inclusions within diamonds: a new approach to diamond inclusion geochemistry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 216, pp. 335-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.039)
Koornneef, J. M., Gress, M. U., Chinn, I. L., Jelsma, H. A., Harris, J. W. and Davies, G. R. (2017) Archaean and Proterozoic diamond growth from contrasting styles of large-scale magmatism. Nature Communications, 8, 648. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00564-x) (PMID:28935863) (PMCID:PMC5608721)
Palot, M., Pearson, D.G., Stachel, T., Stern, R.A., Le Pioufle, A., Gurney, J.J. and Harris, J.W. (2017) The transition zone as a host for recycled volatiles: Evidence from nitrogen and carbon isotopes in ultra-deep diamonds from Monastery and Jagersfontein (South Africa). Chemical Geology, 466, pp. 733-749. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.07.023)
Ickert, R. B. , Stachel, T., Stern, R. A. and Harris, J. W. (2015) Extreme 18O-enrichment in majorite constrains a crustal origin of transition zone diamonds. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 1(1), pp. 65-74. (doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.1507)
Viljoen, K.S., Harris, J.W., Ivanic, T., Richardson, S.H. and Gray, K. (2014) Trace element chemistry of peridotitic garnets in diamonds from the Premier (Cullinan) and Finsch kimberlites, South Africa: contrasting styles of mantle metasomatism. Lithos, 208-09, pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.08.010)
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