ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Discovering Mineral nAnoinclusions in DiAaMonds
Diamonds are the only geological materials able to travel hundreds of kilometres vertically, horizontally and through time for billions of years, being un-modified since the day of their formation. Not just a time capsule, when diamonds incorporate mineral inclusions captured from the deep mantle, they represent an open window into otherwise inaccessible regions of Earth. Based on their formation depths, diamonds are classified as lithospheric (formed between about 120 and 200 km depth) and sublithospheric (formed much deeper, between 300 up to 1000 km depth). However, a third class of diamonds - “fibrous diamonds” - is much less studied and the origin of such enigmatic diamonds is still…
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