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The Sm–Nd and Rb–Sr isotope characteristics were studied in clinopyroxenes (Cpx) of ultrabasic rocks (dunite, wehrlite, pyroxenite, and kosvite) from the Konder massif, which is a source of a unique placer platinum deposit. The chemical composition of the clinopyroxenes studied provides evidence for their crystallization from a single melt in the course of magmatic differentiation. The Sm–Nd isotope characteristics of Cpx in dunite from the Konder massif correspond to the regression with an age of 128 ± 40 Ma, which provides evidence for the same age of rocks of the “dunite core,” wehrlite, pyroxenite, kosvite, and alkaline rocks of the subsequent intrusive stage in the Konder massif. Variations in the Sr and Nd isotope characteristics in dunite, wehrlite, pyroxenite, and kosvite result from contamination of the picritic melt with rocks of the continental crust in the course of its cumulative evolution, which allows us to exclude the model of diapiric intrusion of mantle dunite.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Savatenkov, A.G. Mochalov, 2018, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2018, Vol. 482, No. 5.
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Savatenkov, V.M., Mochalov, A.G. Age and Sources of Dunite from the Konder Massif (Aldan Shield). Dokl. Earth Sc. 482, 1331–1335 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X18100161
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