Trillions of Nanodiamonds discovered in Greenland ice sheet

Nanosize diamonds have been discovered in the Greenland ice sheet,The finding adds credence to the controversial hypothesis that fragments of a comet struck across North America and Europe approximately 12,900 years ago.

"There is a layer in the ice with a great abundance of diamonds," "Most exciting to us is that this is the first such discrete layer of diamonds ever found in glacial ice anywhere on Earth, including the huge polar ice sheets and the alpine glaciers. The diamonds are so tiny that they can only be observed with special, highly magnifying microscopes. They number in the trillions."



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