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for those interested, this find was made possible by what I as a (recovering) geologist believe to be the coolest event on Earth---a kimberlite pipe. Created in
by billiam 7y ago
for those interested, this find was made possible by what I as a (recovering) geologist believe to be the coolest event on Earth---a kimberlite pipe. Created in the deep mantle, these extremely dense magmas melt upward at increasing speed, breaking the surface at more than 100 mph. Would be cool to see--and of course there's the diamonds.
- mncharity 7y agoThanks for that. Other fun bits: mostly found in cratons; mostly from 70 and 150 Mya, but some >1200 Mya. The closest to a survey article I quickly found was https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.15.6.405 https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.15.6.405 (on scihub).