Diamond Ages: Are Diamonds Forever? | GIA Knowledge Sessions Webinar Series

GIA Knowledge Sessions Webinar - recorded live on July 30, 2020.

Older than the dinosaurs and almost as old as Earth itself, diamonds are windows into the mysteries of our planet’s continuing geologic evolution. How old are the oldest diamonds and are diamonds still forming now? How are diamonds dated and why doesn’t carbon dating work on them? Join GIA Research Scientist Dr. Karen Smit and Senior Staff Scientist Dr. Steven Shirey of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Earth and Planets Lab as they explore diamond dating and what diamonds teach us about the Earth.

Read more of Dr. Karen Smit's research:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/sum...
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spr...
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/win...

Read more of Dr. Steven Shirey's research:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/200...
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs...