MARINE DIAMONDS
November 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
A PROFESSOR of geology at the University of Toronto believes that the materials that form the gem diamonds mined in Guaniamo, Venezuela, originated on the ocean floor and has found hard evidence to support his theory. Daniel Schulze says diamonds act as time capsules, preserving inside themselves a record of conditions that existed during diamond formation. In his study, published in Nature this past May, Schulze and his team developed a method to analyse coesites, the tiny minerals in the diamonds. They compared the coesites to those in ancient ...
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