Supercomputers have revealed the giant 'pillars of heat' funnelling diamonds upwards from deep within Earth
- Written by: Ömer F. Bodur, Honorary Fellow, University of Wollongong
ShutterstockMost diamonds are formed deep inside Earth and brought close to the surface in small yet powerful volcanic eruptions of a kind of rock called “kimberlite”.
Our supercomputer modelling, published in Nature Geoscience, shows these eruptions are fuelled by giant “pillars of heat” rooted 2,900 kilometres below...
