This study investigated the origin of water, natural gas and oil, as well as diamonds. In this paper, it has been shown that diamonds, water, oil and natural gas on Earth were formed as a result of a thermal nuclear explosion following the collision of a comet with the surface of a protoplanet at a sliding angle. The hypothesis proposed by the author is the only one explaining the predominance of diamond deposits in the southern hemisphere and oil and gas deposits in the northern hemisphere. It was explained why the spatial distribution of diamond deposits forms pronounced linear or circular spatial clusters. Two types of diamond deposits and four types of gas and oil deposits were identified in this study. The recommendations for the search for these deposits have been specified.
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