Super-Deep Diamond Reveals How Water Travels to the Earth’s Interior

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Natural Diamond KimberliteA stone analyzed at the Sirius particle accelerator supports the hypothesis that the mineral goethite can carry water from the planet’s surface into rocks in the lower mantle. A microscopic pocket sealed inside a diamond only 3 millimeters long may record how water travels from Earth’s surface into the planet’s deep interior. A Brazilian research [...]
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