Feb. 23 (UPI) --Researchers have discovered a diamond that grew for more than 2 billion years. Inside the record-setting diamond are clues revealing a significant shift in the carbon cycle of early ...

Scientists of the Faculty of Geology of Moscow State University conducted a simulation of the conditions and mechanisms of mica formation in the Earth's mantle and compared the results with data on ...

inclusions, which are internal inclusions of liquids or other minerals. It was reported that new knowledge about the interior of the earth was obtained through research on inclusions, which are ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...

A study of tiny mineral 'inclusions' within diamonds from Botswana has shown that diamond crystals can take billions of years to grow. One diamond was found to contain silicate material that formed ...

Detrital zircon (ZrSiO 4) grains from the ∼3,000-Myr-old Jack Hills metaconglomerate in Western Australia range in age up to ∼4,400 Myr and currently represent the only direct samples of the Hadean ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare type of diamond may suggest that water can penetrate deeper into Earth's interior than ...