It's like the song says:
"Diamonds are a foraminifera's best friend."
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Paul" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 10:06 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Agglutinated Foraminifera Had a Taste
forExtraterrestrial Nanodiamonds
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.
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