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Formation · 1/4
A nodule begins around a fragment
Out on the abyssal plain, metals dissolved in seawater settle around a hard nucleus — often a shark tooth or a fragment of bone — layer by microscopic layer.
Nodules grow about one millimetre every million years — among the slowest processes on Earth.