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Ultra-microbes are the minerogenetic constructors of oceanic polymetallic nodules

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Polymetallic nodules (mangnese nodules) are a typical kind of manganese oncdites. The distribution of smooth surface and knobbly mangaree nodules is cloyely related to the geological background of the mine field. A systematic study on their inner laminae structure and features suggests that they are the products of millions of years reproduction and accumulation of the recently foundMiniactimyces chinensis andSpirisophaerospora pucifia.

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  1. Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, 310012, Hangzhou, China

    Jianlin Chen

  2. Centu for Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, China

    Fusheng Zhang

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, China

    Lizeng Bian

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Chen, J., Zhang, F. & Bian, L. Ultra-microbes are the minerogenetic constructors of oceanic polymetallic nodules. Chin.Sci.Bull. 42, 617–624 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03182634

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