Citation:

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Name: Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the VERMILION SEA Expedition stations
Creator: Shipboard Scientific Party
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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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

Project(s):

NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database (NOAA-MMS)

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: 0 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 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: * 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: * 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: * 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):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Event label	Event		SIO
2	Sample ID	Sample ID		SIO
3	DEPTH, sediment/rock	Depth sed	m	SIO	Geocode
4	Position	Position		SIO
5	Deposit type	Deposit type		SIO
6	Quantity of deposit	Quantity		SIO
7	Size	Size		SIO
8	Substrate type	Substrate		SIO
9	Sediment type	Sediment		SIO
10	Comment	Comment		SIO
11	Description	Description		SIO
12	Uniform resource locator/link to image	URL image		SIO

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

89 data points

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