Kadko, David (1980): Annotated record and Pb, Th, U and Ra isotope concentrations for two cores of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880552, Supplement to: Kadko, D (1980): 230Th, 226Ra and 222Rn in abyssal sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 49(2), 360-380, https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(80)90079-5
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Abstract:
A model that predicts the flux of 222Rn out of deep-sea sediment is presented. The radon is ultimately generated by 230Th which is stripped from the overlying water into the sediment. It is shown that the continental contribution of ionium is not significant, and that at low sedimentation rates, biological mixing and erosional processes strongly affect the surface concentration of the ionium. Two cores from areas of slow sediment accumulation, one from a manganese nodule region of the central Pacific and one from the Rio Grande Rise in the Atlantic were analyzed at closely spaced intervals for 230Th, 226Ra, and 210Pb. The Pacific core displayed evidence of biological mixing down to 12 cm and had a sedimentation rate of only 0.04 cm/kyr. The Atlantic core seemed to be mixed to 8 cm and had a sedimentation rate of 0.07 cm/kyr. Both cores had less total excess 230Th than predicted. Radium sediment profiles are generated from the 230Th model. Adsorbed, dissolved, and solid-phase radium is considered. According to the model, diffusional losses of radium are especially important at low sedimentation rates. Any particulate, or excess radium input is ignored in this model. The model fits the two analyzed cores if the fraction of total radium available for adsorption-desorption is about 0.5-0.7, and if K, the distribution coefficient, is about 1000. The flux of radon out of the sediments is derived from the model-generated radium profiles. It is shown that the resulting standing crop of SUP-222 Rn in the overlying water may be considered as an added constraint in budgeting 230Th and 226Ra in deep-sea sediments.
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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
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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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Median Latitude: -8.745000 * Median Longitude: -86.052500 * South-bound Latitude: -29.300000 * West-bound Longitude: -137.405000 * North-bound Latitude: 11.810000 * East-bound Longitude: -34.700000
Date/Time Start: 1966-03-02T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1975-11-09T00:00:00
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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.
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- Kadko, D (1980): Annotated record of the detailed examination of sediment cores from a VEMA 22 Expedition station in the South Atlantic Ocean and a station from DOMES Site B, Pacific Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880550
- Kadko, D (1980): (Tables 2-3, pages 365-366) Pb, Th, U, Ra isotope data for two cores of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880551