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Diamond from
Otting, Donau-Ries District, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany


Locality type:Municipality
Classification
Species:Diamond
Formula:C
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.
Colour:Grey, dark green, yellowish.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diamond data
Locality Data:Click here to view Otting, Donau-Ries District, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:304689
Long-form Identifier:1:3:304689:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Diamond
23.6km (14.7 miles) ⓘSeelbronn Quarry, Amerdingen, Donau-Ries District, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
References
www.museum.hu-berlin.de (2002) http://www.museum.hu-berlin.de/min/mitarbeiter/mitarb/ralf/diamante.html
GSA Special Paper 384 (2005) pp 299-314
 
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