Re: Diamond Blowout
- From: peterwezeman@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 13, 12:02 pm, mstem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Stemper)
wrote:
In article <6ffd6541-0d34-4c25-a496-987d3523f...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, peterweze...@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
According to present theory, diamonds crystallize at depths on the
order of a hundred miles beneath the Earth's surface, diamond being
the stable form of carbon under such pressures. If a volcanic eruption
carries the diamonds to the surface quickly enough, they can cool off
before the carbon atoms can migrate to the configuration of graphite,
which is the stable form at lower pressures. The most recent such
eruption was some twenty million years ago in Australia.
Has such an eruption ever been used as an event in a science fiction
story?
Such an eruption was portrayed in _Diamond Mask_, the second book
in Julian May's Galactic Mileu.
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