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A GIS Approach to Identify Potential Zones of Polymetallic Nodules in The Indian Ocean Region
Abstract: Mankind’s quest for metals has been growing steadily and has resulted in expanding his search beyond land, that is, in the oceans. Being in the dissolved form, metals are also formed in the ocean in the form of polymetallic nodules. They are submarine rock concretions formed of concentric layers of Iron and Manganese hydroxide around a nucleus. Nodules contain manganese and iron, nickel, copper, cobalt, lead, molybdenum, cadmium, vanadium, titanium, …
Published in Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS · Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2013 · pp. 1–11 Read article