PANGAEA_879656 Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn nodules from the Baja California Seamount Province Sorem, Ronald K; Foster, Allan R Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn nodules from the Baja California Seamount Province 1973 PANGAEA Dataset Supplement to: Sorem, Ronald K; Foster, Allan R (1973): Mineralogical, chemical and optical procedures and standards for study of growth features and economic potential of manganese nodules. in: Phase I Report - Inter-University Program of Research on Ferromanganese Deposits of the Ocean Floor. Seabed Assessment Program, IDOE, NSF, Washington D.C., USA, 23-38, https://store.pangaea.de/Projects/NOAA-MMS/Sorem_1973_IDOE.pdf https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.879656 Investigator Ronald K Sorem Earth Science Sample ID Latitude of event Longitude of event Elevation of event Sample code/label DEPTH, sediment/rock Position Deposit type Quantity of deposit Size Substrate type Description Uniform resource locator/link to image geoscientificInformation Dredge SAN_JUAN_1963 SNJ-DH8 Spencer F. Baird Complete 21.66667 21.66667 -113.5 -113.5 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 https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 17 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 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

Internal growth features of manganese nodules reveal that many nodules are structurally, chemically, and mineralogically non-uniform, largely as a result of a complex growth history. If numerous investigators are to study the mineralogical and textural features of manganese nodules, the laboratories concerned must standardize procedures to some extent so that work is not duplicated and so that results can be compared fairly. In particular, we suggest that all investigators, for example, geochemists, mineralogists, and biologists who work with individual nodules, should pay due attention to the internal complexity of nodules while pursuing their individual specialized research. Detailed investigation of the relationships between the internal structure of manganese nodules and the mineralogy and chemical composition is essential to an understanding of nodule origin and of possible problems in economic use of nodules. Research of this kind is best controlled by use of good polished sections of whole manganese nodules. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.879656"! ** 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/Sorem_1973_IDOE.pdf Mineralogical, chemical and optical procedures and standards for study of growth features and economic potential of manganese nodules https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/NOAA-MMS NOAA-MMS DIF 9.4 2026-04-30