PANGAEA_871021
Observation of manganese deposits in the Cayman Trough, Caribbean Sea by the ALVIN submersible in 1976
Heirtzler, James R
Observation of manganese deposits in the Cayman Trough, Caribbean Sea by the ALVIN submersible in 1976
1976
PANGAEA
Dataset
Supplement to: Heirtzler, James R (1976): Submersible studies of the Cayman Trough. In: Geodynamics Project U.S. Progress Report - 1976. National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., USA; https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007158946, 11-17, https://store.pangaea.de/Projects/NOAA-MMS/Heirtzler_1976_Cayman.pdf
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871021
Investigator
James R
Heirtzler
Earth Science
Event label
Latitude of event
Longitude of event
Elevation of event
Identification
DEPTH, sediment/rock
Position
Deposit type
Quantity of deposit
Substrate type
Sediment type
Comment
Description
geoscientificInformation
AL61100
AL61200
AL61300
AL61500
AL61600
AL61700
AL61900
AL62000
AL62100
AL62200
AL62300
AL62400
AL62500
ALV611
ALV-611
ALV612
ALV-612
ALV613
ALV-613
ALV615
ALV-615
ALV616
ALV-616
ALV617
ALV-617
ALV619
ALV-619
ALV620
ALV-620
ALV621
ALV-621
ALV622
ALV-622
ALV623
ALV-623
ALV624
ALV-624
ALV625
ALV-625
Grab
Visual description
Alvin
1976-01-28
1976-02-21
Complete
17.913
19.148
-81.807
-81.217
0.0 m (DEPTH, sediment/rock)
0.0 m (DEPTH, sediment/rock)
NOAA-MMS
NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database
unrestricted
CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
English
PANGAEA
Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
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Data Center Contact
Michael
Diepenbroek
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Germany
online
94 data points
text/tab-separated-values
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
Near-vertical basaltic face of a scarp in the Cayman Trough - photo taken from submersible ALVIN in 1976 (URI: https://store.pangaea.de/Projects/NOAA-MMS/Fig2-1_Heirtzler_1976_Cayman.jpg)
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
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the U.S. Navy, the State University of New York at Albany, Wesleyan University, Oregon State University, Dalhousie University, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography participated in the Cayman Trough expedition durieng 15 ALVIN dives in January and February 1976. The survey focused on a spreading center is a 150-km section of the plate boundary running across the floor of the Cayman Trough, where two tectonic plates are actually moving apart. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871021"! ** 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.
https://doi.org/10.7289/V52Z13FT
The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database
https://doi.org/10.7289/V53X84KN
The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Bibliography
https://store.pangaea.de/Projects/NOAA-MMS/Fig2-1_Heirtzler_1976_Cayman.jpg
Near-vertical basaltic face of a scarp in the Cayman Trough - photo taken from submersible ALVIN in 1976
https://store.pangaea.de/Projects/NOAA-MMS/Heirtzler_1976_Cayman.pdf
Submersible studies of the Cayman Trough
https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/NOAA-MMS
NOAA-MMS
DIF
9.4
2026-06-18