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Hidden Within African Diamonds, a Billion-Plus Years of Deep-Earth History
Fluids trapped within the stones are helping researchers reconstruct the deep history of the continent, and eventually maybe others.
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Cracking Open Diamonds for Messages From the Deep Earth
“After a diamond captures something, from that moment until millions of years later in my lab, that material stays the same. We can look at diamonds as time capsules, as messengers from a place we have no other way of seeing.”
Join us on Saturday, October 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House! Celebrate 75 years of science with us at our beautiful Palisades, NY campus. The event is free and open to everyone, with a suggested $5 donation. Learn More and RSVP
