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MANGANESE nodules are characteristic of present-day pelagic sediments. Price and Calvert1 consider post-depositional processes to be the most important factors in the formation and geochemistry of the nodules, particularly diagenetic migration of manganese and related elements2. The solution of nodules on burial has been suggested by Manheim3 for neritic nodules, and this could account for their scarcity in the fossil record. Fossil manganese nodules have been described from the Cretaceous of Timor4 and the Tethyan Jurassic of Sicily5 and the Alps6. In this article we report ferro-manganese nodules from Upper Devonian pelagic facies of the Montagne Noire, South France. Perseil7 recently described some manganese minerals (including todorokite and manganite) from the Upper Devonian of Haute Pyrénées, Ariege and Aude (France), occurring as nodules, lenses and cements, concentrated by sedimentary and secondary processes.
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TUCKER, M. Devonian Manganese Nodules from France. Nature Physical Science 230, 116–117 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci230116a0
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