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GEOCHEMICAL investigations are being undertaken of a series of gravity cores collected in the Red Sea from the RRS Discovery in 1963 (Fig. 1). The chief interest of these cores is the similarity between the shipboard description of core 5233 and those of cores from the metalliferous brine deposits of the Atlantis and Discovery Deeps. As a first phase of the investigation, several samples from this and the other cores have been analysed for zinc, copper and manganese.
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TOOMS, J., RUGHEIM, M. Additional Metalliferous Sediments in the Red Sea. Nature 223, 1356–1359 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231356b0
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