Berthe Morisot paintings

Berthe Morisot paintings
childe hassam paintings
So the scientists took 82 seismometers with them and placed them about 60 miles apart across Zimbabwe, Botswana and the country of South Africa. The seismometers recorded shockwaves from more than 200 earthquakes during the four-year period, mostly from the far-off Himalayan and Andean mountain ranges.That data is being used to create a three dimensional image of the region of the Earth where the diamonds formed, and where the life of the continent actually began, according to seismologist Matt Fouch, assistant professor of geology at Arizona State University, a member of the research team."This is one of the oldest parts of the Earth, in terms of the age of the rocks," Fouch says. Some of the rocks, he says, are about 3.6 billion years old. That makes them younger than the planet's oldest rocks, found in Australia and Canada, but still quite old. What's really intriguing to scientists is not just that the rocks are so old, but the fact that they were thrust to the surface through a violent event that, coincidentally, also brought diamonds to the surface. The high resolution images produced by the seismic network tell part of that story.