Rebecca Neely, one of the editors of Nature Geoscience, invited Ananya Mallik to write a brief article (news and views) reviewing how diamonds are windows to deep Earth. The article is part of a special collection by Nature Geoscience on deep water.
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Iron–nickel alloy considered to be remnant of serpentinized seafloor trapped as an inclusion in this colourless diamond from the ‘CLIPPIR’ family of superdeep diamonds.