mantle

Flawed, Precious Stones Carry Clues From Deep in the Mantle

When mantle rocks come into contact with seawater, the resulting reaction, called serpentinization…

About 250 million years ago, one of the largest known volcanic events in history flooded the area…

On the surface, carbon dioxide moves in complex cycles between living organisms and the physical…

Experts judge a diamond’s worth by the four Cs, “color, clarity, cut, and carat weight,” and blue…
A big part of understanding how much carbon Earth holds beneath its surface relies on measuring how…

Pyroxenites are a type of rock created when parts of Earth’s crust are injected deep in the mantle…

DCO Extreme Physics and Chemistry Community member Eglantine Boulard with Deep Life Community…

A new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters [1] finds that carbonates…

The recent discovery of an unusual inclusion in a rare, super-deep diamond means that calcium…

The team, led by Raphael Pik and Bernard Marty of the CNRS at the University of Lorraine, France,…