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Shipboard Scientific Party (1960): Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the VERMILION SEA Expedition stations [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.857506, Supplement to: SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography (1960): Physical and Chemical Data Vermilion Sea Expedition 13 April - 29 May 1959, (R/V Spencer F. Baird). SIO Reference, 60-51, 26 pp, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jg3k3d0

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Abstract:
On Vermilion Sea Expedition two research vessels among which the R/V Spencer F. Baird conducted a geological and geophysical exploration of the Gulf of California from February to May, 1959. Support was obtained from the Office of Naval Research and the Bureau of Ships of the U. S. Navy and from a grant of the American Petroleum Institute. Study of the canyons was one feature of the first part of the expedition. Submarine canyon studies were directed by Francis P. Shepard, Professor of Submarine Geology, aboard the research vessel Spencer F. Baird. The expedition found that the narrow channel between Angel de la Guarda Island, toward the head of the Gulf, and the peninsula is scoured almost free of sediments by strong currents. On the other side of Angel de la Guarda Island, between it and the mainland, one of the dredge hauls brought up a manganese nodule. It came from a depth of approximately 1500 feet. This is the shallowest water in which the nodules have been found. Studies have been under way some time on the feasibility of mining such nodules from the sea floor. They contain cobalt, nickel, copper and other valuable metals. (also in, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Vermilion Sea Expedition to the Gulf of California, http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb34484017)
Source:
Grant, John Bruce; Moore, Carla J; Alameddin, George; Chen, Kuiying; Barton, Mark (1992): The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, https://doi.org/10.7289/V52Z13FT
Further details:
Warnken, Robin R; Virden, William T; Moore, Carla J (1992): The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Bibliography. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, https://doi.org/10.7289/V53X84KN
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 28.298521 * Median Longitude: -112.646850 * South-bound Latitude: 22.300000 * West-bound Longitude: -113.550000 * North-bound Latitude: 29.116670 * East-bound Longitude: -107.800000
Date/Time Start: 1959-04-07T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1959-05-15T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: m
Event(s):
VSS17PH-L2502 (Station 17-L2502) * Latitude: 29.116670 * Longitude: -113.428330 * Date/Time: 1959-04-07T00:00:00 * Elevation: -840.0 m * Location: Vermilion Sea, Pacific Ocean * Campaign: VERMILION_SEA * Basis: Spencer F. Baird * Method/Device: Photo/Video (PV) * Comment: Institute: SIO
VSS17PH-L2503 (Station 17-L2503) * Latitude: 29.116670 * Longitude: -113.428330 * Date/Time: 1959-04-07T00:00:00 * Elevation: -840.0 m * Location: Vermilion Sea, Pacific Ocean * Campaign: VERMILION_SEA * Basis: Spencer F. Baird * Method/Device: Photo/Video (PV) * Comment: Institute: SIO
VSS17PH-L2504 (Station 17-L2504) * Latitude: 29.116670 * Longitude: -113.428330 * Date/Time: 1959-04-07T00:00:00 * Elevation: -840.0 m * Location: Vermilion Sea, Pacific Ocean * Campaign: VERMILION_SEA * Basis: Spencer F. Baird * Method/Device: Photo/Video (PV) * Comment: Institute: SIO
Comment:
Bottom photographs are part of a collection made available by the U.S. Navy Electronics, San Diego and can be downloaded from NOAA-NCEI: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/idb/struts/results?op_28=eq&v_28=09995025&t=101477&s=1&d=2. The NAGA images data card can be accessed here: hdl:10013/epic.46706.d008.
From 1983 until 1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions. At the time it was the most extended data compilation on ferromanganese deposits world wide. Initially published in a proprietary format incompatible with present day standards it was jointly decided by AWI and NOAA to transcribe this legacy data into PANGAEA. This transfer is augmented by a careful checking of the original sources when available and the encoding of ancillary information (sample description, method of analysis...) not present in the NOAA-MMS database.
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1Event labelEventSIO
2Sample IDSample IDSIO
3DEPTH, sediment/rockDepth sedmSIOGeocode
4PositionPositionSIO
5Deposit typeDeposit typeSIO
6Quantity of depositQuantitySIO
7SizeSizeSIO
8Substrate typeSubstrateSIO
9Sediment typeSedimentSIO
10CommentCommentSIO
11DescriptionDescriptionSIO
12Uniform resource locator/link to imageURL imageSIO
Size:
89 data points

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