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Cataloging ferromanganese crusts

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center 2020 (approx.)
A woman stands at a lab table looking at a rock sample that she's holding.
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In the Marine Minerals Laboratory at the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California, a USGS physical scientist catalogs ferromanganese crusts for future subsampling and geochemical analyses.

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