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Sugimura, Y; Miyake, Yasuo; Yanagawa, Hatsue (1975): Chemical composition and rate of accumulation of manganese nodules in the western North Pacific [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.863982, Supplement to: Sugimura, Y et al. (1975): Chemical composition and the rate of accumulation of ferromanganese nodules in the Western North Pacific. Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics, 26(2), 47-54, https://doi.org/10.2467/mripapers1950.26.2_47

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Abstract:
The major and some of the minor constituents and the rate of accumulation of manganese nodules in the western North Pacific were determined. Manganese concentration in the nodules ranged from 20 to 30 per cent in the acid soluble fraction. As to the rare earth concentration, enrichment of cerium was observed in the manganese nodule as compared with that in shales or sea water. Thorium to uranium ratio in the nodule ranged from 9.4 to 14.3, which was very much higher than that in sea water. From the distribution of excess ionium, excess protactinium and Io/Th ratio, a rate of accumulation of 7 mm per million years was obtained with the surface layer of several mm in thickness of the JEDS-4-E4 nodule.
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: 38.413333 * Median Longitude: 146.333333 * South-bound Latitude: 38.145000 * West-bound Longitude: 146.000000 * North-bound Latitude: 38.467000 * East-bound Longitude: 148.000000
Date/Time Start: 1960-06-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1960-06-01T00:00:00
Comment:
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1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions.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.
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