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They have diameters of 2 to more than 8 cm. The substratum of the nodules is shark teeth, basalts, andesites, and more rare varieties of weathered volcanic rocks. 

Manganese nodules result from the precipitation of manganese and iron hydroxides from sea-water or pore-water around an offered nucleus. Nuclei available in the deep sea are pieces of volcanic material (balsalt, pumice) (Fig. 6) or apatitic fossils (shark teeth (Fig. 7), auditory canals of whales). 

Small boneS for example poultry bones and fish or snake vertebrae, can similarly be threaded, as can sharks teeth (Fig. 12.10). These teeth can sometimes be found washed up on beaches, in areas of the world inhabited by the sharks. They can also be purchased in fossilised farm, though these are sold as curiosities and collectors items. 

Baturin, 1988 Pinet, 2000). Some nodules are also found buried in deep-sea sediment cores. Most nodules contain nuclei of different materials (e.g., shark teeth, shells, fish bones, and fragments of hard igneous and sedimentary rocks). The growth rates of nodules as well as cmsts are extremely slow (millimeters per million years Broecker and Peng, 1982 Cowen et al., 1993 Vonderhaar et al., 2000). 

Meanwhile switch off gel apparatus and remove shark tooth comb. Clean the comb, and the trough formed in the gel with buffer to remove unpolymerized polyacrylamide. Re-insert the comb with teeth in first into the pre-formed trough, allowing teeth to touch the top surface of the gel causing a slight indentation. Do not allow teeth to pierce the gel. 

The great white shark is perhaps the best equipped of all the ocean s predators.(2)It can grow up to twenty-one feet and weigh three tons, with two-inch teeth that can replace themselves within twenty-four hours when damaged. (3) The shark s sense of smell is so acute it can detect one ounce of fish blood in a million ounces of water. (4)In addition, it can sense vibrations from six hundred feet away. 

Apart from sharks, where the upper and lower teeth are relatively similar in shape and number, the upper and lower jaws of modern jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes) generally differ in the shape and number of their teeth or tooth-bearing dermal bones. In bony fishes (osteichthyans), and land vertebrates (tetrapods), this difference disappears as one considers early, Paleozoic groups, whose upper jaw bones are almost a mirror image of those of the lower jaw. This curious symmetry has been pointed out long ago by the American paleontologist A.S. Romer in early... 

Kemp NE. Ameloblastic secretion and calcification of the enamel layer in shark teeth. 

Heat to 85° C for 3-5 minutes and load onto gel with shark s teeth comb. Run at 45W (I9OOV Maximum) until bromophenyl blue has run out. 

Shark s Teeth. A striation (q.v.) of dagger-like step fractures from the scored edge to the compression edge (the region in which the brittle material is subject to compressive stress). 

Deep-sea manganese nodules at depths of 4-6 km is a manganese ore which grew on a nucleus of very small pieces of stone and shark teeth by 1—lOmm/lO y. Mn (1.3—35%) and Fe (4.8—42%) are the main components and the others are Ni, Cu and Co. Several multinational private consortia were formed in the 1970s to explore and develop the mining and extraction processes for deep-sea nodules. In the mid-1990s, however, none have a short-term development plan. It is a potentially important future source of manganese [2—3a]. 

It is interesting to compare human with shark s teeth, where the outermost layer which is of mesodermal and not of epithelial origin contains apatite crystals similar to those of human enamel. This layer contains more than 100 times as much fluoride as mottled human enamel but shows no mineralization defects. It appears that the enamel organ has a specific sensitivity to fluoride. 

Elasmobranch fishes (sharks, rays, and skates) have a unique skin structure which has adapted for different species to serve various purposes. Their skin is covered with miniscule scales that are extremely similar to teeth (hard enamel outside with a pulpy inside) in which the base of each scale is embedded in the surface of the skin. These scales are known as placoid scales or denticles. Sharks (Fig. 1), in particular, have a chain of evolutionary development dating back 400 million years, with some of the youngest species of highly adapted fast-swimming sharks (e.g. the shortfin mako shark hums oxyrinchus) dating back approximately 8 million years. To meet the needs of various species, the microstructure of the denticles has adapted to serve four essential functions. The primary purpose for this bony skin is protection from predators and or prey as well as ectoparasites. A secondary purpose for most species is incorporation... 

Figure 14.3 Primitive chondrichthyan dentitions, (a) Stethacanthus sp., cranium reconstructed in lateral view showing the braincase (after Coates and Sequeira 1998), mandibular and hyoid arches in articulation. The dentition consists of seven well spaced tooth files along each half-jaw. The smaller, older teeth of each file are retained and displaced onto the outer, labial surface (statodont type), (b) Stethacanthus sp., an individual, multicusped, mandibular tooth, (c) Chlamydoselachus, the (extant) frilled shark, dorsal view of lower jaw showing well spaced tooth files of a 340 mm embryo (after Smith 1937). (d) Chlamydoselachus, side view of mandibular tooth (after Smith 1937). (e) Palatal view of the primitive holocephalan, Helodus (after Patterson 1965), showing a dentition of widely spaced, statodont tooth files, (f) Helodus, a single tooth file (nearside surface is labial).

Replaceable sets of specialized teeth on the mandibular arch are confined to acanthodians, osteichthyans and chondrichthyans. And, as noted elsewhere, a repeated feature of the mandibular dentitions in primitive members of each of these clades is the presence of tooth whorls, often larger than flanking teeth, at the symphysis of the lower jaw (Smith and Coates 1998, fig. 7). Acanthodians display a considerable variety of tooth patterns, and, amongst these, shark-like tooth files with fused tooth-bases occur in several groups. Osteichthyans, however, are not known to have tooth whorls outside of the symphysial or parasymphysial location. 

Figure 14.5 Microfocal, projection X-rays of all developing teeth in the upper and lower jaws of a 51 cm shark embryo (Carcharinus amblyrhyncus (A) X 4, (B) X 3). All mineralised stages are shown of each tooth file (9 in each), none has been shed. There are symphyseal sets plus 13 on each side. The lower jaw has a single, symmetrical, symphyseal tooth set, whereas the upper has a staggered left-right set (each of 9 germs).

The next significant aspect of the model concerns the asymmetric localization of the sequence of replacement teeth, usually lingual to the functional tooth (sharks, newts, lizards), and at one end only of the linear sets of branchial tooth whorls in thelodonts... 

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