Lonsdale, Peter; Spiess, Fred N (1979): Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits observed from bottom photography taken during the INDOMED-1 expedition [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873178, Supplement to: Lonsdale, P; Spiess, FN (1979): A pair of young cratered volcanoes on the East Pacific Rise. The Journal of Geology, 87(2), 157-173, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30060250
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Abstract:
35 km either side of the Pacific-Cocos spreading axis at 846'N, on crust 0.6 x 10SUP-6 years old, a pair of small seamounts rises 1.4 km above the faulted terrain of young abyssal hills. A high-resolution traverse made with the sonars and cameras of a deeply towed vehicle shows that the seamounts are inactive volcanoes, with concave side slopes that steepen upwards to 30, and then abruptly flatten at 2-4 km wide summits. Ledges of pillow basalt outcrop on the lower slopes, and form some talus slopes, but the superficial rock of the upper slopes appear to be mainly hyaloclastite. A transponder-navigated deep-tow survey at the summit area of the eastern seamount mapped an asymmetric caldera containing 3 pit craters, which have vertical walls and flat floors. Dredging across the caldera floor recovered hyaloclastite, angular fragments of primitive tholeiite, and manganese nodules. The paired seamounts probably had a common origin at a 'hot spot' on the spreading axis; continued to grow after they were split by sea-floor spreading; and became extinct and suffered summit collapse after they spread too far from their magma source.
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
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Coverage:
Latitude: 8.806518 * Longitude: -103.895403
Date/Time Start: 1977-10-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1977-10-01T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m
Event(s):
INMD-1-4C * Latitude: 8.806518 * Longitude: -103.895403 * Date/Time: 1977-10-01T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2211.0 m * Location: East Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Indomed_leg_1 * Basis: Melville * Method/Device: Photo/Video (PV)
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):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identification | ID | ||||
| 2 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | Geocode | ||
| 3 | Position | Position | Visual description | |||
| 4 | Deposit type | Deposit type | ||||
| 5 | Quantity of deposit | Quantity | ||||
| 6 | Size | Size | ||||
| 7 | Substrate type | Substrate | ||||
| 8 | Sediment type | Sediment | ||||
| 9 | Comment | Comment | ||||
| 10 | Description | Description | ||||
| 11 | File name | File name | ||||
| 12 | Uniform resource locator/link to image | URL image |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
21 data points
Data
| 1 ID | 2 Depth sed [m] | 3 Position | 4 Deposit type | 5 Quantity | 6 Size | 7 Substrate | 8 Sediment | 9 Comment | 10 Description | 11 File name | 12 URL image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INMD-1-4C-1 | 0 | Surface | Mn nodule | Few | Large | Ooze | Calcareous ooze | Scattered large spherical Mn nodules at the surface between hayloclastite blocks. | Fig5_Lonsdale_1979.jpg | Fig5_Lonsdale_1979.jpg | |
| INMD-1-4C-2 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | Many | Thick | Block; basalt | Ooze | Calcareous ooze | Abundant hyaloclastiteslabs 3-5 cm thick and fragments of basalt, all thickly encrusted by ferromanganese oxide. | Fig5_Lonsdale_1979.jpg | Fig5_Lonsdale_1979.jpg |
