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CORES taken from the north-eastern Mediterranean (Fig. 1) during cruise 4/72 of the RRV Shackleton, using a Lehigh 4-inch hydroplastic gravity corer, contain layered organic structures encrusted with either manganese or iron minerals (Table 1, Fig. 2).
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BUCKLEY, H., EASTON, A. & JOHNSON, L. Iron and manganese encrustations in Recent sediments. Nature 249, 436–437 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249436a0
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