Sea creatures had a thing for bling. by Lewis Dartnell http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/department/news/2008/may_kaminski.html
Article at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826553.500-sea-creatures-had-a-thing-for-bling.html%22 “Even more surprising were microscopic granules of carbon, no more than 10 micrometres across, which were subsequently identified as diamonds. "The foraminifera were deliberately using extraterrestrial diamonds in their shells," says Kaminski.” The paper is; Kaminski, M.A. and Armitage, D.A. and Coccioni, R. (2008) Shocked diamonds in agglutinated foraminifera from the Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary, Italy - a preliminary report. In: Kaminski, M. A. and Coccioni, R., (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publications (13). The Grzybowski Foundation, London, UK, pp. 57-60. ISBN 9788392486930 Abstract at http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/6535/ PDF file at: http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/people/m-kaminski/reprints-pdfs/KAJC08.pdf Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
