Description of manganese deposits collected by the CESAR Canadian Station in the Alpha Ridge, Arctic Ocean

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During CESAR expedition, 20 similar bedrock samples were dredged from the walls of a major graben of the Alpha Ridge. These rocks are the only bedrock samples ever recovered from the ridge, providing the only direct evidence for its nature, composition and possible.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1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions.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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.859246
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.4095/120315
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.7289/V52Z13FT
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.7289/V53X84KN
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.859246
Provenance
Creator van Wagoner, Nancy; Robinson, Paul T
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1985
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 9 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-110.256 LON, 85.865 LAT); Alpha Ridge, Arctic Ocean