No volcano produces diamonds.
Diamonds are erupted to the surface of the earth through volcanic pipes, which look like upside-down volcanoes. These pipes erupt indicator minerals, some of which include diamonds.
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No, not all volcanoes have diamonds. Diamonds are often found in specific types of volcanic rock formations called kimberlite pipes and lamproite rocks, which are relatively rare. Volcanoes can erupt different types of materials, and not all of them contain diamonds.
Diamonds are not found in volcanoes. Diamonds are erupted to the earth's surface through volcanic pipes.
Volcanoes are formed with cones well above the earth's surface. Volcanic pipes are shaped in the inverse, with the top of the pipe being its largest area -- at the surface -- and the cone focused deep within the earth's mantle where diamonds are formed.
Diamonds, which are formed deep within the earth's mantle, are forced to the earth's surface through volcanic pipes, which are a special kind of volcano.
According to Wikipedia, "Volcanic pipes are relatively rare."
You can read more about them, below.
Diamonds are erupted to the earth's surface through volcanic pipes. These are flat at the earth's surface, with a cone originating deep underground.
Volcanoes with cones of elevation that rise above the surface do not contain diamonds.
No. Diamonds form deep underground under immense heat and pressure. They are then carried to the surface by volcanic activity.
No. Diamonds are formed by pressure deep within the earth. However, many diamonds are brought to the surface by volcanic activity.
Diamonds are formed from carbon deep within the earth's mantle. In order for the stones to be brought to the surface, a volcanic pipe must erupt.
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Diamonds are produced by Mother Nature deep within the earth's mantel.
Volcanoes simply transport the diamonds to the surface by way of volcanic pipes.
No, not all volcanoes have kimberlite. Kimberlite is a type of volcanic rock that often contains diamonds, but it is only found in specific geological settings. Other types of volcanoes can be composed of different types of magma and erupt different types of rocks.
Some volcanoes, including Hawaii, occasionally produce sands which are composed of transparent green grains of the gemstone, peridot. On the Big Island, the sands mostly appear black except on a beach near the southernmost tip of the island.
Yes. Arkansas is the one of four places in North America where diamonds are mined, and the only place open to the public, and the diamonds found there are in a lamproite vein; that is, they are found in an extinct volcanic pipe at the Crater of Diamonds State Park.
Earth, Venus and Mars all have volcanoes.
No, there are no active volcanoes in Poland. The country does not sit on a tectonic plate boundary where volcanic activity typically occurs.