Observation of manganese deposits made during the 1936 transect of C/S Lord Kelvin through the Northern Atlantic Ocean

In May and June 1936 Dr. C. S. Piggot of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, took a series of 11 deep-sea cores in the North Atlantic Ocean between the Newfoundland banks and the banks off the Irish coast. These cores were taken from the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bramlette, M, Bradley, Wilmot Hyde
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 1942
Subjects:
Atlantic Ocean
Comment
Core
Deposit type
DEPTH
sediment/rock
Description
Elevation of event
Event label
Latitude of event
LK-11
LK-13
LK-8
Longitude of event
NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database
NOAA-MMS
Position
Quantity of deposit
Sample ID
Sediment type
Substrate type
Newfoundland
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.856674
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856674
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Summary:In May and June 1936 Dr. C. S. Piggot of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, took a series of 11 deep-sea cores in the North Atlantic Ocean between the Newfoundland banks and the banks off the Irish coast. These cores were taken from the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s cable ship Lord Kelvin with the explosive type of sounding device which Dr. Piggot designed. All but two of these cores (Nos. 8 and 11) are more than 2.43 meters (8 feet) long, and all contain ample material for study. Of the two short cores, No. 8 was taken from the top of the Faraday Hills, as that part of the mid-Atlantic ridge is known, where the material is closely packed and more sandy and consequently more resistant; No. 11 came from a locality where the apparatus apparently landed on volcanic rock that may be part of a submarine lava flow.

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