Pennsylvania Eastern Region Abstract Competition. The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (Formerly Scranton Temple Residency Program) in Scranton, PA will host the ACP PA Eastern Regional Meeting on October 6, 2012 at The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC) in Scranton. The competition is open to all residents in the Pennsylvania Eastern Region.
Diamonds are formed as an allotrope of the element carbon, at depths greater than 90 miles. The pressure and heat at this depth is critical to the formation of the diamonds thâ¦at are mined at the surface today. At crustal pressures, the stable form of carbon is the allotrope graphite.
When rocks are heated up or put under a lot of pressure, they can change drastically. This is because the minerals that make up the rocks form only at certain temperatures and pressures. At high temperatures or pressures, the elements will rearrange their crystal structure to form a different mineral. Graphite and diamond are two minerals that are both made entirely out of carbon. If we put graphite under a huge amount of pressure, the carbon atoms will be squeezed together and will rearrange themselves into the more compact crystal structure of diamonds. This change happens without any melting of the rock.