The presence of hydrated minerals and decrease mantle minerals within the diamond recommend water might be discovered deeper under Earth’s floor than beforehand thought. Scientists know there’s water at the least 200 miles under Earth’s floor, within the higher mantle, in keeping with Reside Science. They believed, nevertheless, that the warmer, denser minerals within the decrease mantle could not maintain almost as a lot water. This diamond’s composition challenges that concept.

The Earth’s decrease mantle has been troublesome for scientists to review, as a result of it lies to this point down, beginning round 410 miles beneath the floor. The Earth’s deepest borehole is barely 7.5 miles. Nevertheless, the decrease mantle makes up 56% of Earth’s complete quantity, making its composition vital to the development of the planet (through Newsweek). Gem stones might be among the finest methods to review the decrease mantle, since stones like this diamond can work their approach up in direction of the floor after forming within the decrease mantle (through Vice).