Forged in the very severe temperatures and pressures of the mantle of the Earth, diamonds at their basic most form are compressed carbon crystals. While diamonds may seem simple to the eye, the diamond formation process is extremely complex. As a new study shows, the origin tale of some diamonds involves a surprising bit player: the sea. As geochemist named Yaakov Weiss and his teammates show in a recent study, diamonds from the Northwest Territories of Canada owe their existence […]
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