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Eclogitic Diamonds Formed From Oceanic Crust, Study Shows

Merapi is the most active volcano in Indonesia and its unpredictable, explosive eruptions are a…

From their humble location deep in the muck at the bottom of the ocean, subseafloor microbes…

The Kidd Creek Mine, located in Ontario in Canada, is a copper, silver, and zinc mine reaching…

Diamonds are found in two types of rocks from Earth’s mantle: peridotite and eclogite. Peridotite…

In the oxygen-free parts of lakes, hot springs, and marine environments worldwide, some microbes…

In 2009, researchers discovered a tiny nematode living happily in the water inside rock fractures,…

A diverse group of bacteria called Firmicutes, which can be found in human infections, fermented…

In the last 16,000 years, the bottom of the Baltic Sea experienced good times and bad times.…

For most microbes that settle into marine sediments, there’s nowhere to go but down. They become…

These deep mines have been a boon to scientists as well. The mining companies drill boreholes into…