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Recently determined diamonds normally form in geysers when magma spurts up through layers of rock. Takes minutes, not billions of years. Anyway, cool article.
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Recently determined diamonds normally form in geysers when magma spurts up through layers of rock. Takes minutes, not billions of years.
Anyway, cool article.
- squigz 3y agoThat's neat. Source?
- bicx 3y ago[flagged]
- timothyduong 3y agoGoogled “diamond geyser” and didn’t get meaningful results
- pfdietz 3y agoProbably talking about kimberlite eruptions.
- datascienced 3y agoThey died out in the 1980s in East London.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoWell, slightly harder to replicate under laboratory conditions. Sort of like if there was an article saying we'd figure out how to harness fusion for power and someone responded with "big deal, have you seen the sun?".
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoStill interesting though.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoHey they brought it up, not me!