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pl23_expn6100.jpg

A covering of manganese nodules in a bathymetric low point

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Description

A covering of manganese nodules in a bathymetric low point. Are they stillattached to the rock below with sediment in the intervening spaces, have theyformed in situ, have they eroded off a botryoidal manganese coated substrate?

Credit

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana

Display Date

20150806T002528Z

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

Ocean Exploration Collection

Modern Expeditions

2015 Hohonu Moana