Abstract
Revealing the internal structure of diamonds is key to understanding the general regularities of crystal growth and dissolution. This paper presents and summarizes data on the internal structure of diamonds of different morphological types, colors and defect-impurity composition. In order to provide a comprehensive explanation of the stages of diamond growth, crystals and plates were observed, and panchromatic cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence techniques were applied. This article considers the mechanism of tangential growth from existing surfaces (regeneration growth) as an intermediate stage between normal and tangential crystal growth. The regeneration growth is very fast due to the absence of the limiting stage-nucleation of a new atomic layer. Cuboid diamonds were refaceted to stepped octahedrons by the regeneration growth mechanism. A schematic model of crystal habit transformation due to regeneration growth explains the internal structure of crystals in connection with their morphology and thermal history. The main variants of regeneration stage and its morphological manifestations were demonstrated. Most diamonds pass through the regeneration stage, and in many cases, it was a stage of growth termination.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Subject
Geology,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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