V O LU M E T E N HANDBOOK OF EXPLORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY The Indian Ocean Nodule Field: Geology and Resource Potential HANDBOOK OF EXPLORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY Series Editor MARTIN HALE 1. Analytical methods in geochemical prospecting 2. Stastistics and data analysis in geochemical prospecting 3. Rock geochemistry in mineral exploration 4. Regolith exploration geochemistry in tropical and sub-tropical terrains 5. Regolith exploration geochemistry in arctic and temperate terrains 6. Drainage geochemistry 7. Geochemical remote sensing of the sub-surface 8. Life cycle of the phosphoria formation: From deposition to the post-mining environment 9. 10. Biogeochemistry in mineral exploration The Indian Ocean nodule field: Geology and resource potential V O LU M E T E N HANDBOOK OF EXPLORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY The Indian Ocean Nodule Field: Geology and Resource Potential RANADHIR MUKHOPADHYAY National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India ANIL K. GHOSH University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India SRIDHAR D. IYER National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK First edition 2008 Copyright # 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (þ44) 1865 843830, fax: (þ44) 1865 853333, E-mail:
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