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    Manganese nodules

    Form on the vast deep-water abyssal plains

    Ferromanganese crusts Form on 50,000 seamounts

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    Form on sediment-covered abyssal plains(4,000-6,500 meters

    water depths)

    Composed ofmanganese-iron oxides,with significant amountsof nickel & copper

    Form by precipitationfrom cold ambientbottom water & from

    sediment pore fluids

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    Slow rates of sedimentation Availability of material for nuclei Mechanism for turning

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    Manganese nodules

    Form on the vast deep-water abyssal plains

    Ferromanganese crusts Form on 50,000 seamounts

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    Circulation that traps larvae and diminishesspread to other seamounts

    Abbreviated larval stage that remains nearbottom

    Varying ages and stability of volcanoes Varying environmental conditions

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    *

    These properties areinstrumental in

    allowing for surface

    adsorption of large

    quantities of metals

    from seawater!

    Very high porosity (60%) Extremely high specific surface

    area (mean 325 m2/g)

    Incredibly slow ratesof growth (1-5 mm/Ma)

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    Crusts in the Global Ocean

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    Finding enough Te for CdTe is the largest

    barrier to the multi-terawatt use of CdTefor solar-cell electricity. It is widelyregarded as the lowest cost photovoltaictechnology with the greatest potential.This is important to the US and the world

    (Ken Zweibel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

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