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10/09/2020 / By Virgilio Marin

Crystal gems found in extreme igneous rocks could form within hours, study suggests

Researchers from Rice University in Texas and the University of California, Riverside have found that gems can grow within hours inside extreme igneous rocks called pegmatites, instead of the thousands of years they usually take to form. In a study published in the journal Nature, the researchers described how they examined sample crystals from a pegmatite mine in Southern California. Using […]

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