Location of the northern Alberta kimberlite province.
The northern Alberta kimberlite province (NAKP) consists of three groups of diatremes or volcanic pipes in north-central Alberta, Canada, most of which are kimberlites and some of which are diamondiferous. They are called the Birch Mountains (BM), Buffalo Head Hills (BHH), and the Mountain Lake cluster (ML), and they were discovered between about 1990 and 1997. Most of the diatremes were emplaced during the Late Cretaceous Epoch (Turonian to Maastrichtian stages)[1] although a few are as young as early Paleocene.[2][3]
^Eccles, D.R., Heaman, L.M., Luth, R.W. and Creaser, R.A. (2003). "Petrogenetic considerations for the Late Cretaceous northern Alberta kimberlite province. 8th International Kimberlite Conference, Extended Abstract, 5 p." (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Boyer, L., McCandless, T., Tosdal, R. and Russell, K. 2008. Volcanic facies and eruption styles in the Cretaceous Buffalo Head Hills kimberlites, Alberta, Canada. 9th International Kimberlite Conference, Extended Abstract 9IKC-A-00367-2, 3 p.
^Eccles, D.R. (2014). "Northern Alberta Kimberlite Province: The first 20 years. Alberta Geological Survey, ERCB/AGS Bulletin 65, 116 p." (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
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