manganese nodule

Hydrothermal vents and manganese nodule fields in the deep oceans contain more biodiversity than expected.

Interest in manganese nodule exploitation may have subsided since the 1970s but it never quite disappeared.

The prospect of mining asteroids was a sci-fi dream of the 1970s, just around the time of the manganese nodule craze.

The lure of the manganese nodule faded from public consciousness.

A sediment core from the bottom of the ocean with a well-preserved sediment-water interface and a manganese nodule sitting on the sediment surface.