Hekinian, Roger; Hoffert, Michel (1975): (Table 2, page 96) Observation of manganese deposits on basaltic rocks from the Rift Valley in the Atlantic Ocean near 36°N [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873551, Supplement to: Hekinian, R; Hoffert, M (1975): Rate of palagonitization and manganese coating on basaltic rocks from the Rift Valley in the Atlantic Ocean near 36°50′N. Marine Geology, 19(2), 91-109, https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(75)90056-0
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Abstract:
Various types of rocks consisting of plagioclase basalts, olivine basalts, pyroxene basalts, picritic basalts and volcanoclastics were found in the Rift Valley between 36°52'N and 36°47'N in the Atlantic Ocean. Palagonite and manganese are the main coating materials encountered on the chilled margins of the pillow-lava fragments. Palagonite is often associated with montmorillonite and chlorite. The thickness of palagonite coating the chilled margins increases in the fragments found from the innerfloor axis towards the walls of the Rift Valley. There is a linear correlation between the thickness of palagonite and that of the manganese encrustation. Considering a rate of manganese and palagonite accumulation of about 3my/10**3 year it is speculated that the age of a hill located near the axis of the inner floor near 36°50'N is between 3,000 and 12,000 years. The relative age of the inner floor near the intersection of the Rift Valley walls is less than 120,000 years. The specimens having a thicker manganese and palagonite crust located at 4-6 km away from the inner floor axis are 130,000–482,000 years old.
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):
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 36.822289 * Median Longitude: -33.265288 * South-bound Latitude: 36.780500 * West-bound Longitude: -33.354170 * North-bound Latitude: 36.873330 * East-bound Longitude: -33.217500
Date/Time Start: 1972-09-12T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1973-08-01T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m
Event(s):
CHAR31-DR2 * Latitude: 36.794170 * Longitude: -33.258330 * Date/Time: 1972-09-12T00:00:00 * Elevation: -1662.0 m * Recovery: 249 kg * Location: Rift Valley, Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: MIDLANTE * Basis: Jean Charcot * Method/Device: Dredge (DRG)
CHAR31-DR3 * Latitude: 36.789170 * Longitude: -33.217500 * Date/Time: 1972-09-12T00:00:00 * Elevation: -1773.0 m * Recovery: 100 kg * Location: Rift Valley, Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: MIDLANTE * Basis: Jean Charcot * Method/Device: Dredge (DRG)
CHAR31-DR6 * Latitude: 36.780500 * Longitude: -33.315500 * Date/Time: 1972-09-12T00:00:00 * Elevation: -1843.0 m * Recovery: 158 kg * Location: Rift Valley, Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: MIDLANTE * Basis: Jean Charcot * 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):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Hekinian, Roger | |||
| 2 | Identification | ID | Hekinian, Roger | |||
| 3 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | Hekinian, Roger | Geocode | |
| 4 | Position | Position | Hekinian, Roger | Visual description | ||
| 5 | Deposit type | Deposit type | Hekinian, Roger | |||
| 6 | Quantity of deposit | Quantity | Hekinian, Roger | |||
| 7 | Size | Size | Hekinian, Roger | |||
| 8 | Thickness | Thick | cm | Hekinian, Roger | ||
| 9 | Thickness | Thick | cm | Hekinian, Roger | ||
| 10 | Thickness | Thick | cm | Hekinian, Roger | ||
| 11 | Substrate type | Substrate | Hekinian, Roger | |||
| 12 | Sediment type | Sediment | Hekinian, Roger | |||
| 13 | Description | Description | Hekinian, Roger |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
187 data points
Data
| 1 Event | 2 ID | 3 Depth sed [m] | 4 Position | 5 Deposit type | 6 Quantity | 7 Size | 8 Thick [cm] | 9 Thick [cm] | 10 Thick [cm] | 11 Substrate | 12 Sediment | 13 Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAM73-07-01 | FAM73-07-01-1 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 14 | Thin | 0.215 | 0.06 | 0.37 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thin Mn coating on olivine basalt |
| FAM73-13-04 | FAM73-13-04-1 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 10 | Thin | 0.150 | 0.06 | 0.24 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thin Mn coating on olivine basalt |
| FAM73-10-03 | FAM73-10-03-1 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 11 | Thin | 0.570 | 0.24 | 0.90 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thin Mn coating pn picritic basalt |
| FAM73-10-02 | FAM73-10-02-1 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 20 | Thick | 2.260 | 1.10 | 3.42 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on pyroxene basalt |
| CHAR31-DR9 | CHAR-DR9-344 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 3 | Thin | 0.380 | 0.34 | 0.42 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thin Mn coating on olivine basalt |
| CHAR31-DR9 | CHAR-DR9-348 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 1 | Thin | 0.340 | 0.34 | 0.34 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thin Mn coating on olivine basalt |
| CHAR31-DR9 | CHAR-DR9-349 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 8 | Thin | 0.680 | 0.34 | 1.02 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thin Mn coating on olivine basalt |
| CHAR31-DR11 | CHAR-DR11-315Y | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 7 | Thick | 1.620 | 0.94 | 2.30 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on olivine basalt |
| CHAR31-DR11 | CHAR-DR11-315X | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 4 | Thin | 0.635 | 0.42 | 0.85 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thin Mn coating on olivine basalt |
| CHAR31-DR11 | CHAR-DR11-351 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 1 | Thick | 1.870 | 1.87 | 1.87 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on olivine basalt |
| CHAR31-DR10 | CHAR-DR10-310 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 3 | Thick | 3.400 | 2.60 | 4.20 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on pyroxene basalt |
| CHAR31-DR2 | CHAR-DR2-300 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 5 | Thick | 3.185 | 1.27 | 5.10 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on plagioclase basalt |
| CHAR31-DR2 | CHAR-DR2-193 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 3 | Thick | 1.600 | 1.50 | 1.70 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on plagioclase basalt |
| CHAR31-DR6 | CHAR-DR6-305 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 9 | Thick | 4.885 | 2.97 | 6.80 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on pyroxene basalt |
| CHAR31-DR3 | CHAR-DR3-302 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 3 | Thick | 12.325 | 10.20 | 14.45 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on plagioclase basalt |
| CHAR31-DR3 | CHAR-DR3-3 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 3 | Thick | 4.340 | 4.00 | 4.68 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on plagioclase basalt |
| CHAR31-DR7 | CHAR-DR7-318 | 0 | Surface | Mn crust | 6 | Thick | 7.850 | 5.50 | 10.20 | Rock; basalt | Hard ground | Thick Mn crust on plagioclase basalt |