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Heezen, Bruce C; Matthews, J L; Catalano, Giulio; Natland, James H; Coogan, Laurence A; Tharp, Mary; Rawson, M (1973): Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the ARIES-5 cruise among the West Pacific Guyots [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.869668, Supplement to: Heezen, BC et al. (1973): Western Pacific Guyots. In: Heezen, B.C.; MacGregor, I.D., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, XX, 653-723, https://doi.org/10.2973/dsdp.proc.20.132.1973

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Published: 1973 (exact date unknown)DOI registered: 2017-01-17

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Abstract:
The sea floor of the western Pacific is covered by five stratigraphic units: (l) an eastward thinning wedge of late Tertiary silty clay, primarily of volcanic origin, (2) a Cretaceous to Tertiary zeolitic red clay, (3) a Late Cretaceous to Tertiary chalk/chert sequence, (4) a Cretaceous clay, and (5) a basal chalk/chert sequence. The basal chalk was deposited on the young crust at the crest of the mid-oceanic ridge, while the upper chalk was deposited beneath the equator, and the abyssal clays were deposited in abyssal depths in mid latitudes. A kinematic model has been constructed that outlines the deposition of these units on growing crust, which not only was displaced westward away from the accretion center of the mid-oceanic ridge, but northward under the equator. The average northward component of motion for the Pacific plate has been 2 cm per year from 0 to 30 m.y. and 4.4 cm per year from 30 to 100 m.y. The deep-sea deposits of the Pacific are basically and systematically time transgressive. Claims of general synchroneity for either lithostratigraphy or acoustostratigraphy are rejected as inconsistent with both the drilling data and the kinematic model of Pacific pelagic stratigraphy. A few more well sampled holes in the ancient Pacific plate combined with an appropriately refined kinematic model should yield a 'rather detailed history of the Pacific plate since the Jurassic.
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: 20.850750 * Median Longitude: 166.316250 * South-bound Latitude: 17.080000 * West-bound Longitude: 159.547000 * North-bound Latitude: 23.703000 * East-bound Longitude: -177.312000
Date/Time Start: 1971-05-12T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1971-05-26T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: m
Event(s):
ARIES-005D * Latitude: 17.080000 * Longitude: -177.312000 * Date/Time: 1971-05-12T00:00:00 * Elevation: -1984.0 m * Location: Pacific Ocean * Campaign: ARIES * Basis: Thomas Washington * Method/Device: Dredge (DRG)
ARIES-019D * Latitude: 21.145000 * Longitude: 163.397000 * Date/Time: 1971-05-23T00:00:00 * Elevation: -1777.0 m * Location: Pacific Ocean * Campaign: ARIES * Basis: Thomas Washington * Method/Device: Dredge (DRG)
ARIES-022D * Latitude: 21.475000 * Longitude: 159.633000 * Date/Time: 1971-05-25T00:00:00 * Elevation: -1490.0 m * Location: Pacific Ocean * Campaign: ARIES * Basis: Thomas Washington * Method/Device: Dredge (DRG)
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.
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1Event labelEventHeezen, Bruce C
2DEPTH, sediment/rockDepth sedmHeezen, Bruce CGeocode
3IdentificationIDHeezen, Bruce C
4PositionPositionHeezen, Bruce CVisual description
5Deposit typeDeposit typeHeezen, Bruce C
6Quantity of depositQuantityHeezen, Bruce C
7Substrate typeSubstrateHeezen, Bruce C
8Sediment typeSedimentHeezen, Bruce C
9DescriptionDescriptionHeezen, Bruce C
10File nameFile nameHeezen, Bruce C
11Uniform resource locator/link to imageURL imageHeezen, Bruce C
Size:
36 data points

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