However, this would be short-lived, for as the crumpled collision zone 'relaxed' very soon after the impact, the lower density continental crustal rocks thus rammed into the mantle would rapidly rebound. Perhaps the 'mystery' surrounding them would be easily solved if they abandoned their uniformitarian presuppositions. Tr nnes, R.G., Smith, D.C., Taylor, W.R. and Posukhova, T.V., 1995. Microdiamond in high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Western Gneiss region, Norway. Return to text Monastersky, R., 1995.
Microscopic diamonds crack geologic mold.
Return to text Austin, S.A. , Baumgardner, J.R. , Humphreys, D.R. , Snelling, A.A. , Vardiman, L. and Wise, K.P. , 1994. Return to text Dobrzhinetskaya et al. , Ref. Return to text Sobolev, N.V. and Shatsky, V.S., 1990. Seng r, A.M.C., Su, W., Liu, Y. and Jiang, L., 1992. Diamond from the Dabie Shan metamorphic rocks and its implication for tectonic setting.