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Description: There might be a quadrillion tons of diamonds 100 miles below Earth’s surface. But the furthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could we know that? #diamonds #seismicwaves #earth You might also like: The Chemical Origins of Life youtube.com/watch?v=f44OWlsLeT0 How Do We Know How Old the Earth Is? youtu.be/7cFYPYaD4zQ Salt, Diamonds and DNA: 5 Surprising Facts About Crystals youtu.be/urq8SuPMZ_w Why is Carbon the Key to Life? (On Earth, Anyway) youtu.be/VUiDwrM2YPI Credits: Executive Producers: George Zaidan Hilary Hudson Producers: Elaine Seward Andrew Sobey Darren Weaver Writer/Host: Sam Jones, PhD Scientific consultants: Michelle Boucher, PhD Joshua Garber, PhD Brianne Raccor, PhD Suzette Timmerman, PhD Sources: Multidisciplinary Constraints on the Abundance of Diamond and Eclogite in the Cratonic Lithosphere agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GC007534 Diamondiferous garnet harzburgites from the Finsch kimberlite, Northern Cape, South Africa link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00310887 Earthquakes and the Earth's internal structure amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/planet-earth/why-are-there-ocean-basins-continents-and-mountains/plate-tectonics/earthquakes-and-the-earth-s-internal-structure Understanding Earth’s interior courses.lumenlearning.com/geophysical/chapter/understanding-earths-interior How we know what lies at Earth’s core bbc.com/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth Diamonds Unearthed smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/diamonds-unearthed-141629226 Seismic waves topex.ucsd.edu/es10/es10.1997/lectures/lecture20/secs.with.pics/node3.html Most diamonds share a common origin story sciencenews.org/article/most-diamonds-share-common-origin-story Metastability of diamond ramp-compressed to 2 terapascals nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03140-4.epdf?sharing_token=upSwbPHhx_HxaQigxdCP_9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M6LLrOYqAnbf2oqumzx__KT0aNTBUaZAyxpwikI8fH8pWQKL31NAilWtIQa2CU2p7tECnWhK7W3i6RStSb1HezJFrEgMYD1ziBITScJT58aYC1vYaIQ0AmyInnUoPah7E9xjJ5km11mT07PmUF2VP4z2YV_Dok9BXJsEXxIern0HCnpDJYN0PfXbGXhxmjHqU%3D&tracking_referrer=www.sciencenews.org Rare Diamond Confirms That Earth's Mantle Holds an Ocean's Worth of Water scientificamerican.com/article/rare-diamond-confirms-that-earths-mantle-holds-an-oceans-worth-of-water Diamonds show depth extent of Earth's carbon cycle phys.org/news/2011-09-diamonds-depth-extent-earth-carbon.html A quadrillion tons of diamonds lurk deep within Earth nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-earth-diamonds-gems-rare-minerals-earthquakes Hope diamond formed stunningly close to Earth's core livescience.com/hope-cullinan-diamonds-deep-origins.html Earth’s layers space.com/17777-what-is-earth-made-of.html