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Image of the diamond from Botswana containing davemaoite as an inclusion
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Diamond Discovery Unearths Secrets of the Deep

by Clarissa Wright 23 December 202121 March 2022

A diamond inclusion has revealed a new mineral, davemaoite, as well as hints about the workings of our planet’s interior.

Wearing a white lab coat, Yiming Zhang, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, sits in front of a computer screen, examining data, with a mouse in his right hand. To his left, a gray microscope with four copper-colored rings encircling the stage perches on a black table.
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Diamonds Are a Paleomagnetist’s Best Friend

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 19 October 202125 October 2021

Typical paleomagnetic measurements average a sample’s signal. The quantum diamond microscope helps scientists make micrometer-scale maps of magnetism, showing where a sample locked in its magnetic signatures.

Figure showing a thermal model of a subduction zone with the relatively cold (blue) oceanic plate sinking into the comparatively hot (red) mantle.
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Diamonds Are at Fault

by V. Salters 26 May 202123 December 2021

Deep-seated earthquakes in subduction zones are related to diamond formation.

The rough Cullinan Diamond
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Explaining the Genesis of Superdeep Diamonds

by Terri Cook 12 March 201923 December 2021

Real-time tracking during diamond anvil cell experiments indicates reaction rates may control the unusual depth distribution of the extremely rare diamonds that form deep within Earth’s mantle.

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Are Diamonds Ubiquitous Beneath Old Stable Continents?

by S. Lebedev 7 August 201823 December 2021

Although rare at the Earth’s surface, diamonds may be commonplace at depths of 120 to 150 kilometers below the surface within the lithosphere of old continents.

A rough, uncut diamond sitting in kimberlite rock.
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Diamond Impurities Reveal Water Deep Within the Mantle

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 2 April 201823 December 2021

A high-pressure form of ice, trapped within diamonds forged in the lower mantle, suggests that aqueous fluids reside deeper in Earth than we knew.

The interior structure of Neptune
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Diamonds Really Do Rain on Neptune, Experiments Conclude

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 15 September 201723 December 2021

Researchers subjected hydrocarbon samples in a laboratory to Neptune-like pressures. The samples, reminiscent of molecules found in the ice giant’s atmosphere, compressed into nanodiamonds.

Researchers scrutinized ultrathin slices of diamond from the Orapa Mine in Botswana pictured here.
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Mineral Flaws Clarify How Diamonds Form

by A. Coombs 23 June 201625 March 2022

A study of nanoscale, iron- and sulfur-rich impurities in diamonds provides new clues to the chemical processes that produce the superhard crystals and at what depths they occur.

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