“…Their study sites as well as ours are all located in basins neighboring mid-ocean ridges, thus the results adds to the growing evidence that REY are bound primarily to apatites, even in the oceans under significant influence of hydrothermal plume (Kashiwabara et al, 2018). (Zhang & Nozaki, 1996), hydrothermal plume particulates from a vent at 9°45′N on the East Pacific Rise (EPR; Sherrell et al, 1999), micronodules (Dubinin & Sval'nov, 2000, 2003, Dubinin et al, 2008Liao, Sun, Wu, et al, 2019;Yasukawa et al, 2020;Zhou et al, 2021), and bioapatites (Kon et al, 2014;Liao, Sun, Li, et al, 2019;Takaya et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2016).…”