{"id":204050,"date":"2025-01-19T03:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/diamond-from-400-miles-deep-reveals-a-water-rich-environment"},"modified":"2025-01-19T03:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:05:02","slug":"diamond-from-400-miles-deep-reveals-a-water-rich-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/diamond-from-400-miles-deep-reveals-a-water-rich-environment","title":{"rendered":"Diamond From 400 Miles Deep Reveals a Water-Rich Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diamond-from-400-miles-deep-reveals-a-water-rich-environment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep below the surface of our world, far beyond our feeble reach, enigmatic processes grind and roil.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then, the Earth disgorges clues to their nature: tiny chthonic diamonds encasing skerricks of rare mineral. From these tiny fragments we can glean tidbits of information about our planet\u2019s interior.<\/p>\n<p>A diamond unearthed in a diamond mine in Botswana is just such a stone. It\u2019s riddled with flaws containing traces of ringwoodite, ferropericlase, enstatite, and other minerals that suggest the diamond formed 660 kilometers (410 miles) below Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep below the surface of our world, far beyond our feeble reach, enigmatic processes grind and roil. Every now and then, the Earth disgorges clues to their nature: tiny chthonic diamonds encasing skerricks of rare mineral. From these tiny fragments we can glean tidbits of information about our planet\u2019s interior. A diamond unearthed in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}