Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from JOIDES Preliminary Cruise with M/V Caldrill I on the Blake Plateau ...

• Main Authors: Schlee, John S, Gerard, Robert
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1964
• Subjects: Sample ID; Sample code/label; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Position; Deposit type; Quantity of deposit; Size; Substrate type; Sediment type; Comment; Description; Drilling/drill rig; JOIDES_prelim; Caldrill I; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database NOAA-MMS; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.866859; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.866859

In May 1964 the Institute of Marine Science (University of Miami), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Lamont Geological Observatory (Columbia University) joined in the establishment of the JOINT OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS DEEP EARTH SAMPLING (JOIDES) program. The long range purpose of this organization is to obtain continuous core samples of the entire sedimentary column from the floors of the oceans. It was decided that initial efforts would be limited to water depths of less than 1000 fathoms (6000 feet), and tentative locations were selected for drilling operations off the eastern, western and Gulf coasts of the United States. Near the end of December 1964 it was found that the M/V Caldrill I, a drilling vessel capable of working to depths of 6000 feet, was to engage in drilling operations on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland during the summer of 1965 for the Pan American Petroleum Corporation. Thus it was agreed to organize a drilling ... : 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1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions.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. ...