Interstitial fbrous nanoscale aggregates of multilayered carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, and fuller-enoids were found in quartz and potassium feldspar grains of slag-like rocks (metamorphosed pol-ymictic sandstones) of the dzharakuduk area (Kyzylkum desert, Uzbekistan). this is the frst fnd of carbon nanotubes ~10 Å in diameter and their assemblages in natural rocks. Based on high-resolution transmitting and scanning electron microscopy, raman spectroscopy and ms dta, it is shown that carbon fullerenes are from 1–2 to 30–50 nm in diameter and carbon nanotubes are distinct in diameter (1–3 to 40–60 nm), length (7–10 to few hundreds of nanometers), and the amount of layers (2–3 to 40). Owing to electron transparency of carbon nanominerals and their magnifcation in one million times, we revealed morphological features of their zonal-sectorial structure and cut evolution.

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Key words: dzharakuduk, kyzylkum, layered carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, fullerenoids, ontogeny, high-resolution transmitting and scanning microscopy.

M.Yu. Povarennykh, S.I. Vavilov Institute for Natural Science History and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; mpovarennykh@mail.ru

E.N. Matvienko, Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;

A.V. Knotko,Moscow State University, Moscow

T.B. Shatalov,Moscow State University, Moscow

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