Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from DSDP Hole 2-8

• Main Authors: Peterson, Melvin N A, Edgar, N Terry, von der Borch, Christopher C, Cita, Maria Bianca, Gartner, Stefan, Goll, Robert M, Nigrini, Catherine A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1970
• Subjects: 2-8; Comment; Deep Sea Drilling Project; Deposit type; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Description; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Glomar Challenger; Leg2; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; North Atlantic/CONT RISE; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sample code/label; Sample ID; Sediment type; Substrate type; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Sohm; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.865246; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.865246

The Atlantic Advisory Panel proposed that Site 8 should be drilled on the rise between the Hatteras and Sohm Abyssal Plains (lat 35° 2l'N., long 67° 3l'W.) This location was considered to offer the best opportunity for realizing two primary objectives. The first of these objectives was to sample and date the oldest available rock in a region adjacent to the North American continent and as far as possible from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The second objective relates to the potential paleobiological and paleoecological information that could be derived from the sedimentary column in this general area.