Geologists explore clues to Earth's formation in diamonds
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 05:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- When jewelers inspect diamonds, they look for cut, clarity, color, and carat. When University of Tennessee, Knoxville, geologists Larry Taylor and Yang Liu inspect diamonds, they look for minerals, inclusions jewelers hate, but whose presence could be clues for how parts of earth formed.