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A rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds
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n. a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia
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n. (context geology English) A variety of peridotite containing a high proportion of carbon dioxide; often contains diamonds.
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Kimberlite is an igneous rock best known for sometimes containing diamonds . It is named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa , where the discovery of an diamond called the Star of South Africa in 1869 spawned a diamond rush , eventually creating ...
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We also know a little bit about the mantle from what are known as kimberlite pipes, where diamonds are formed.
Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite.
Each day saw it driven deeper and deeper still, as the miners followed the fabulous cone of blue kimberlite conglomerate downwards.
Mandobar and the natives back to the alcove where the kimberlite opened up.
The banded ironstone of the walls overlaid dolomites and limestone with weathered yellow kimberlite streaked with unweathered blue, indicating what had previously been a classic diamondiferous kimberlite pipe.
When it reached the solid part of the lithosphere, the actual Clyde craton, which was about 35 kloms thick, it was still hot enough to melt the rock in its path and turn it into the stuff called kimberlite.
We've even had a kimberlite diatreme for the first time in thirty thousand orbits.
The crystals form at great depths beneath ancient cratonic landmasses and are blasted to the surface when diatrematic activity forms a kimberlite pipe.
A kimberlite pipe could explode in your backyard as you read this.
We also know a little bit about the mantle from what are known as kimberlite pipes, where diamonds are formed.