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Saturday 21 December 2013

Kimberlites Discovered in Antarctica

Kimberlites Discovered in Antarctica

First 'bona fide' diamond-bearing rock discovery
made in Antarctica, Wired.co.uk, December 18, 2013
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/18/antarctic-diamonds

Antarctica May Have a New Type of Ice: Diamonds
Scientific America (Reuters) December 17, 2103
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antarctica-may-have-a-new-type-of-diamond

Antarctica's Icy Mountains May Be Harboring
Diamonds, University Herald, December 17, 2013
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/6270/20131217/antarcticas-ice-may-be-harboring-diamonds.htm

The paperis:

Yaxley, G. M., V. S. Kamenetsky, G. T. Nichols,
R. Maas, E. Belousova, A. Rosenthal, and M.
Norman, 2013, The discovery of kimberlites in
Antarctica extends the vast Gondwanan Cretaceous
province. Nature Communications. vol. 4, article
no. 2921, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3921

Yours,

Paul H.

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