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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Known as the upper mantle, this section of the Earth's interior is known for by its high temperatures where solid carbonates melt...

This is yet another horribly written article, with an author trying to sound knowledgeable. Carbonates such as limestone do not "melt" at normal atmospheric pressure: at high temperature limestone "decomposes" into (basically) lime (CaO) and CO2. Pushed hard enough lime will melt (around 4662 deg. F!) but this has nothing to do with molten carbon. However, carbonates can melt when at both high temperature and high pressure -- this is how marble is formed.

Carbon (as in coal) doesn't melt easily either, tho' I couldn't find much info. on what it might do under pressure. The question remains: Are there lakes of pre-marble down there? Or actual melted carbon?

88 posted on 05/01/2017 2:50:08 AM PDT by Paul R.
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To: Paul R.

Diamonds melt fairly easily, but I find it hard to believe there are huge lakes of melted diamonds well down in the mantle...


90 posted on 05/01/2017 2:59:02 AM PDT by Paul R.
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To: Paul R.

Carbon such as graphite or coal when heated and pressurized makes artificial diamonds(zircons)!


100 posted on 05/01/2017 3:56:03 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Paul R.; reg45; ApplegateRanch

Badly written article.

According to this https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170213090756.htm it is “Under the western US is a huge underground partially-molten reservoir of liquid carbonate. It is a result of one of the tectonic plates of the Pacific Ocean forced underneath the western USA, undergoing partial melting thanks to gasses like CO2 and H2O contained in the minerals dissolved in it.”


127 posted on 05/01/2017 10:55:00 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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