Site 74 is located 250 miles northeast of the Marquesas Islands and lies 270 miles south of Site 73 and 400 miles north of Site 75. It is one of the sites along the N-S line drilled during Leg 8 to investigate the east-west trending accumulation of sediments centered about 2°N near 140°W. Site 74 is located near the center of a relatively flat area about 3 miles across. There is some indication of minor deformation at the site.

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1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions.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.

Supplement to: Tracey, J I; Sutton, George H; Nesteroff, Wladimir D; Galehouse, J S; von der Borch, Christopher C; Moore, T; Lipps, J; Haq, Bilal U; Beckmann, Jean-Pierre (1971): Site 74. In: Tracey, J.I.Jr.; et al., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 8, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, VIII, 621-674