Arthur Hughes paintings

Arthur Hughes paintings
Albert Bierstadt paintings
All these years later, scientists still puzzle over forces buried in the Earth that shaped those diamonds, because those same forces also built a continent. As a result, teams of scientists are now wrapping up an ambitious, interdisciplinary study of the same region where Swartboy found that nifty rock. Reading Earth's SurfaceThe research isn't focused on diamonds, but diamonds play a role, and it's possible that the high tech equipment used to probe the region more than 150 miles below the Earth's surface may also help modern fortune hunters find new sources of diamonds. But that's not what the scientists set out to do. "The scientific goal was to try and understand how continents form on Earth," says Richard W. Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's