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.
The conditions for diamond formation to happen in the lithospheric mantle occur at considerable depth corresponding to the requirements of temperature and pressure. These depths are estimated between 140 and 190 kilometers (87 and 118 mi) though occasionally diamonds have crystallized at depths about 300 km (190 mi).