Piper, David Z; Leong, Kam; Cannon, William F (1979): Manganese nodule and surface sediment compositions: DOMES sites A, B, and C [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880888, Supplement to: Piper, DZ et al. (1979): Manganese nodule and surface sediment compositions: domes sites A, B, and C. in: Bischoff, J.L. (ed.), Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Pacific Manganese Nodule Province, Marine Science. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, U.S.A., 437-474, chp_10.1007_978-1-4684-3518-4_13.pdf
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Published: 1979 (exact date unknown) • DOI registered: 2017-10-20
Abstract:
Manganese nodules and associated sediment from the equatorial North Pacific have been examined to ascertain relations between nodule abundance, texture, and composition, and sediment composition, lithology and acoustic stratigraphy. Nodules are most abundant in areas where the uppermost acoustically transparent layer of sediment is less than approximately 15 m thick. Abundance drops off sharply in areas where this acoustic unit is thicker than 20 m. Nodules have average Zn/Mn and Co/Mn ratios which are approximately the same as these ratios for the component of sediment soluble in hydroxylamine hydrochloride-acetic acid. The relations between Cu and Mn and Ni and Mn in the sediment are also approximately the same as in nodules, but only for those nodules which have a smooth surface texture. Granular nodules have relatively more Ni and Cu. Antimony in nodules, similar to Ni, Cu, and Zn, is strongly correlated with Mn, whereas Co, Hf, Th, and U are strongly correlated with Fe. The insoluble component of sediment has a uniform composition which is similar to the composition of terrigenous shale. This similarity holds for the major oxides as well as for Co, Cr, Zn, Hf, Sb, Th, U, Sc, Cs, Rb, and Ta.
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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: 12.180157 * Median Longitude: -137.822115 * South-bound Latitude: 8.238300 * West-bound Longitude: -151.238300 * North-bound Latitude: 16.011667 * East-bound Longitude: -124.993333
Date/Time Start: 1975-05-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1976-10-01T00:00:00
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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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- Piper, DZ; Leong, K; Cannon, WF (1979): (Table 3, pages 445-446) Bulk composition of sediments from DOMES Sites A, B, and C, Pacific Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880884
- Piper, DZ; Leong, K; Cannon, WF (1979): (Table 6, pages 450-451) The composition of the hydrogenous component of sediments from DOMES Sites A, B, and C, Pacific Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880885
- Piper, DZ; Leong, K; Cannon, WF (1979): (Table 8, pages 454-455) Abundance, size and surface texture of manganese nodules in box cores from DOMES Sites A, B, and C, Pacific Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880886
- Piper, DZ; Leong, K; Cannon, WF (1979): (Table 10, pages 464-465) Bulk composition of manganese nodules from DOMES Sites A, B, and C, Pacific Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880887