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What causes the pressure that allows diamonds to form in the mantle?
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What causes the pressure that allows diamonds to form in the mantle?

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the weight of the rocks in the crust and upper mantle

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Diamonds are formed in Mantle and they require large amount of temperature and pressure for their formation. These come up in higher layers due to volcanic eruptions. The pressure is caused by the downward force from the rocks in the crust

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