Diamonds illuminate Earth's deep mantle
Dec 3 2024 12:30 - 2:30PM
ESB 5104
Colloquium
Speaker:
Graham Pearson
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U. Alberta
Hosted by:
Kelly Russell
Description/Abstract
Super-deep diamonds are a variety of diamonds that form beneath the lithosphere,
in the deep asthenosphere, transition zone and uppermost lower mantle. Along
with being the world’s most valuable gems, these diamonds and their inclusions
are unrivaled direct records of slab-mantle interaction processes in these mantle
regions. I will describe a variety of discoveries that show how these diamonds
have advanced our understanding of the deep mantle, even in the context of
deep focus earthquakes.