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Diamond from
Polsingen, Ries Crater, Nördlingen, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany

Description
Comments:Impact diamonds in glass bombs and gneiss elemnts of the suevite.
Diamonds appear as thin pseudo-hexagonal plates (up to 100 µm) : they have formed by displacive phase transformation in solid state (martensitic or diffusion process) from graphite.
Quality of samples:not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
References
References:http://www.museum.hu-berlin.de/min/mitarbeiter/mitarb/ralf/diamante.html
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diamond data
Locality Data:Click here to view Polsingen, Ries Crater, Nördlingen, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
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