Citation:

PANGAEA.746080, In supplement to: Sval'nov, VN; Alekseeva, TN (2005): Grain Size Composition of Bottom Sediments of the World Ocean. Nauka Publ. (Moscow): in Russian, 297 pp

Name: (Table 5) Grain size parameters of oceanic miopelagic clays
Published: 2005
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Project(s):

Archive of Ocean Data (ARCOD)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 14.989209 * Median Longitude: -133.326081 * South-bound Latitude: -11.360000 * West-bound Longitude: 91.688000 * North-bound Latitude: 22.308333 * East-bound Longitude: -37.115000

Date/Time Start: 1962-09-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1984-01-02T00:00:00

Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.001 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 6.475 m

Event(s):

AK40-4323 * Latitude: 22.308333 * Longitude: -37.160000 * Date/Time: 1984-01-02T00:00:00 * Elevation: -5750.0 m * Campaign: * Basis: Akademik Kurchatov * Method/Device: Multiple investigations (MULT)

AK40-4324 * Latitude: 22.296667 * Longitude: -37.115000 * Date/Time: 1984-01-02T00:00:00 * Elevation: -4918.0 m * Campaign: * Basis: Akademik Kurchatov * Method/Device: Multiple investigations (MULT)

DM28-2474-14 * Latitude: 9.536700 * Longitude: -152.706700 * Elevation: -5188.0 m * Penetration: 4.55 m * Location: Equatorial Pacific * Campaign: * Basis: Dmitry Mendeleev * Method/Device: Gravity corer (GC)

Comment:

According to Russian (USSR) decimal grain size classification: sand - 0.1-1 mm; aleurite - 0.1-0.01 mm; pelite - <0.01 mm.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Event label	Event
2	Latitude of event	Latitude
3	Longitude of event	Longitude
4	Elevation of event	Elevation	m
5	DEPTH, sediment/rock	Depth sed	m			Geocode
6	Depth, top/min	Depth top	m	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N
7	Depth, bottom/max	Depth bot	m	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N
8	Size fraction 1.000-0.500 mm, 0.0-1.0 phi, coarse sand	1-0.5 mm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, sieving
9	Size fraction 0.500-0.250 mm, 1.0-2.0 phi, medium sand	500-250 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, sieving
10	Size fraction 0.250-0.100 mm	250-100 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, sieving
11	Size fraction 0.100-0.050 mm	100-50 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, sieving/settling tube
12	Size fraction 0.050-0.010 mm	50-10 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, sieving/settling tube
13	Size fraction < 0.010 mm	<10 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, pipette analysis
14	Size fraction 0.010-0.005 mm	10-5 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, pipette analysis
15	Size fraction 0.005-0.001 mm	5-1 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, pipette analysis
16	Size fraction < 0.001 mm, clay	<1 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, pipette analysis
17	Sum	Sum	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Calculated
18	Size fraction > 0.100 mm	>100 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, sieving	sand
19	Size fraction 0.100-0.010 mm	100-10 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, sieving/settling tube	aleurite
20	Size fraction < 0.010 mm	<10 µm	%	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Grain size, pipette analysis	pelite
21	Median, grain size	D50	µm	Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Calculated
22	Sorting	Sort		Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Calculated
23	Ratio	Ratio		Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Calculated	fraction <0.001 mm / fraction 0.01-0.005 mm
24	Ratio	Ratio		Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N	Calculated	fraction <0.001 mm / fraction 0.005-0.001 mm

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