Publication Date:
2023-08-28
Description:
The environmental conditions and processes that result in the origin and growth of marine manganese nodules have been of interest to both science and industry for more than 100 years, yet they are still poorly understood. The best way to investigate the significant internal features of whole nodules is to study their polished cross sections by the methods of ore microscopy. In this report, basic principles of ore microscopy are reviewed and methods of making good sections from difficult materials are described. The use of "map" photographs and mineral identification by X-ray analysis of microsamples are recommended.
Keywords:
BC; Box corer; Date/Time of event; Deposit type; DEPTH, sediment/rock; DOMES Site C, Pacific Ocean; Elevation of event; Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Mass; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; Oceanographer; Position; Quantity of deposit; RP8OC76; RP-8-OC-76; RP8OC76-10-15; RP8OC76-11-16; RP8OC76-12-18; RP8OC76-13-19; RP8OC76-14-20; RP8OC76-15-21; RP8OC76-1-6; RP8OC76-16-22; RP8OC76-17-23; RP8OC76-18-24; RP8OC76-19-25; RP8OC76-21-27; RP8OC76-22-28; RP8OC76-2-7; RP8OC76-3-8; RP8OC76-4-9; RP8OC76-5-10; RP8OC76-6-11; RP8OC76-7-12; RP8OC76-8-13; RP8OC76-9-14; Sample ID; Size; Uniform resource locator/link to image
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 669 data points
