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Chemistry World July 22, 2011 David Bradley	Cracking diamonds reveals continental origins An analysis of the mineral inclusions in diamonds dredged up by eruptions from deep within the Earth has allowed scientists to get a handle on when the process of plate tectonics began.
Geotimes September 2005 Sara Pratt	Sourcing Ultradeep Diamonds Mineral impurities in a diamond may decrease the gem's value for jewelers, but for geologists they can prove to be priceless: South African diamonds containing garnet have recently provided evidence that very deep diamonds can form from surface materials.
Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Canada's Diamonds Face Old Age Geologists are uncovering the unique origins of Canadian diamonds, and finding not only that they are surprisingly old, but also that they have implications for the timing of Earth's early tectonic processes.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	Double-Crossing the Core A team of scientists has taken the properties of a mineral from the Earth's lower mantle, together with seismic observations of the core-mantle boundary, to propose a new model that could elucidate the heat engine that drives Earth.
Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Black Diamonds Have E.T. Origins Carbonado, or black, diamonds look more like basalt than their traditional colorless counterparts. New research indicates that carbonado diamonds might have formed in space.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Deep Earth May Hold an Ocean Earth's deep interior, more than 1,000 kilometers below the surface in the mantle, could prove to be a watery place. That's the conclusion researchers drew from an anomaly uncovered by the first global map of Earth's lower mantle, using a new type of seismic analysis.
Chemistry World July 30, 2009 James Urquhart	Water linked to mantle oxidation US scientists have used an emerging technique to analyse minuscule samples of magma derived from the Earth's mantle in different tectonic environments and discovered a direct link between water content and the oxidation state of iron within the sample.
Geotimes July 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Earth Soaks up Seawater Geologists have long thought that seawater does not travel very far through Earth's interior A new geochemical study, however, is challenging that notion, saying that traces of seawater exist deep inside the planet.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 John Boyd	Electromagnetic Link Deep in the Earth Varies the Length of the Day Scientists find that 2600 kilometers down, the Earth is electrically conductive. The mineral responsible could point the way to new superconductors.
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Geotimes July 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Afar From Close-up Powerful stresses in the crust lead to frequent earthquakes and volcanism in the Afar Depression of northeastern Ethiopia. Researchers now say that the source of this activity reveals a possible new connection in Earth's interior.
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Chemistry World April 6, 2011 Mike Brown	Mars chemistry reveals how red planet cooled The chemistry of volcanic rock on Mars offers a picture of the thermal history of the planet, according to scientists in France. The findings could provide a reference point for the evolution of other planets, they say.
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Geotimes September 2003 Sara Pratt	Zircons reveal mantle evolution A team of Finnish geologists has discovered 3.1 billion-year-old zircons in the Jormua ophiolite of eastern Finland. Although not the oldest zircons on Earth, the Jormua zircons are the oldest yet found in mantle rocks. Their discovery has given scientists a brief glimpse into the history of early plate tectonics.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	How Does Your Continent Grow? Data from ancient mantle rocks are helping to shore up the hypothesis that the continental crust was extracted in pulses, during periodic large melting events in the mantle.
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Chemistry World May 28, 2014 Ian Randall	Earth's earliest continent formed like Iceland The Earth's first continents may have formed in a geological setting similar to modern-day Iceland, according to the geochemical analysis of a newly discovered rock unit from Canada.
Geotimes January 2004 Sara Pratt	Green minerals on the Red Planet Contrary to the prevailing idea that Mars once sustained a warm, wet climate similar to Earth's, new evidence shows that the planet may have been dry and cold for much of its history.
Chemistry World July 27, 2009 James Urquhart	From methane to liquid gold The world's supplies of oil may be larger than we think - or at least that is what researchers from the US, Russia and Sweden are speculating now they have shown that hydrocarbons can be formed in the mantle from methane.
Geotimes January 2007 Nicole Branan	Heat Flow Causes Magnetic Reversals Earth's magnetic field has done hundreds of somersaults over the last few billion years. A new study sheds some light on what causes the geomagnetic field to flip.
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Geotimes May 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Molten martian core The more researchers study Mars, the more similarities they seem to find between the Red Planet and Earth. The latest parallels come from the planet's enigmatic interior.
Geotimes July 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Challenging core ideas Earth's core has never been so popular -- first plastered over billboards to advertise the recent movie The Core, and now in press worldwide discussing David Stevenson's "modest proposal" to send a grapefruit-sized probe thousands of kilometers into the planet's mysterious core.
Wired September 2003 Joshua Davis	The New Diamond Age Armed with new processes to manufacture inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel. Next up: the computing industry.
Chemistry World May 11, 2006 Jon Evans	Sea Water Assumes the Xenon Mantle Geochemists have uncovered evidence that sea water incorporates noble gases into the Earth's mantle, overturning current theories of how noble gases are transported beneath the crust.
Chemistry World September 2011	Diamonds are for everything No longer valued simply for its glamour and durability, diamond is turning its hand to applications in solar power, laser design and bionic eyes.
Geotimes September 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Donald Forsyth: At Play in the Field Forsyth emphasizes that collaborating with students and other researchers is not only important to solving tough geological puzzles, but also is much of the fun.
Chemistry World June 11, 2014 Emma Stoye	Toughest ever diamond made from carbon onions A synthetic diamond that is even harder than its natural counterpart and able to withstand even hotter temperatures has been made by researchers in China.
Popular Mechanics December 16, 2008 Matthew Hutson	5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived.
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Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Pursuing plumes Geophysicists recently presented improved methods for imaging mantle plumes, providing the strongest evidence yet that some plumes extend all the way down to the coremantle boundary.
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