[meteorite-list] Agglutinated Foraminifera Had a Taste for Extraterrestrial Nanodiamonds

[Paul]

Sea creatures had a thing for bling. by Lewis Dartnell
http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/department/news/2008/may_kaminski.html

Article at:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826553.500-sea-creatures-had-a-thing-for-bling.html%22

“Even more surprising were microscopic granules of carbon, 
no more than 10 micrometres across, which were subsequently 
identified as diamonds. "The foraminifera were deliberately 
using extraterrestrial diamonds in their shells," says 
Kaminski.”

The paper is;

Kaminski, M.A. and Armitage, D.A. and Coccioni, R. (2008)
Shocked diamonds in agglutinated foraminifera from the 
Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary, Italy - a preliminary report. 
In: Kaminski, M. A. and Coccioni, R., (eds.) Proceedings of 
the Seventh International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera. 
Grzybowski Foundation Special Publications (13). The Grzybowski 
Foundation, London, UK, pp. 57-60. ISBN 9788392486930

Abstract at 

http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/6535/

PDF file at:

http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/people/m-kaminski/reprints-pdfs/KAJC08.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.