Diamonds reveal how continents were created

[Oxytropidoceras]

Diamonds reveal how continents are stabilized, key to Earth's habitability

by Carnegie Institution for Science, PhysOrg, April 25, 2019

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-diamonds-reveal-continents-stabilized-key.html

https://www.livescience.com/65327-diamond-flaws-reveal-early-geology.html

 

The paper is:

 

Karen V. Smit, Steven B. Shirey, Erik H. Hauri, and Richard A. Stern

2019, Sulfur isotopes in diamonds reveal differences in continent 

construction. Science 26 Apr 2019: Vol. 364, Issue 6438, pp. 383-385

DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9548

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6438/383

 

Also, there is:

 

Lithospheric Diamonds / Continental Mantle

https://sites.google.com/carnegiescience.edu/stevenbshirey/publications/lithospheric-diamondcontinental-mantle

https://sites.google.com/carnegiescience.edu/stevenbshirey/home

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.