manganese nodule
Britishnoun
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Hydrothermal vents and manganese nodule fields in the deep oceans contain more biodiversity than expected.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024
The sponges in question need to attach themselves to something hard on the sea floor, and in the depths of Pacific that often is a manganese nodule, a lump of rock containing some precious metals.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2016
During the morning a sounding realized two thousand two hundred and seventy fathoms and the sample of mud contained a small, black manganese nodule.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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