New research reveals that nanodiamonds can be formed in relatively benign terrestrial environments — such as a candle and flame. This lends a lot of support to the YD team’s hypotheses that the diamonds they find in the black mat were formed terrestrially, not through shock pressure, but rather by a hypoxic conflagration. In fact, they have a patent on it.
Hello George
Although the nanodiamonds are produced by the flames of candles, I think unlikely that on glaciers have been produced by forest fires.
Discovery of a nanodiamond-rich layer in the Greenland ice sheet.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/36697975/discovery-of-nanodiamond-rich-layer-in-the-greenland-ice-sheet
regards
pierson
I think you’re right Pierson. It fact, some of George’s own work is supportive of that view.
Here’s a poster by George Howard et al that describes a New Method to Produce Nanodiamonds from Research into the Younger Dryas Impact Event.