Na baze kratkogo obobshcheniya materialov po geologii i razmeshcheniyu kim- berlitov sformulirovany osnovnye printsipy vydeleniya i okharakterizovany geneticheskie tipy kimberlitovykh provintsiy. Obsuzhdaetsya vozrast, periodich- nost' i epokhi kimberlitovogo vulkanizma, sinkhronizatsiya ego s fazami tekto- geneza. Dany primery i geneticheskaya interpretatsiya perekrytiya arealov raz- novozrastnykh kimberlitov. Privedeny rezul'taty izucheniya kimberlitov, svidetel'stvuyushchie v pol'zu dreyfa materikov. Spetsial'nye razdely posvya- shcheny sravnitel'nym kharakteristikam geologii, energetiki...

V itoge obobshcheniya literaturnykh i original'nykh materialov provedena sistematizatsiya i analiz vazhneyshikh aspektov geologii kimberlitov. Obsuzhdeny konkuriruyushchie gipotezy po ob"emu termina "kimberlit," klassifikatsii kimberlitovykh porod, printsipam i optimal'nym skhemam rayonirovaniya oblastey proyavleniya kimberlitovogo vulkanizma, strukturnoy pozitsii, usloviyam zaleganiya, vtorichnym izmeneniyam, petrokhimii, differentsiatsii, khronologii vnedreniya, dinamiki, mekhanizmu i energetike protsessov obrazovaniya kimberlitov, faktoram, opredelyayushchim vesovoe soderzhanie i kachestvo...