Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from DSDP Site 29, Leg 4 (Hole 4-29B)

• Main Author: Blow, W H
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1970
• Subjects: 4-29B; Caribbean Sea/BASIN; Comment; Date/Time of event; Deep Sea Drilling Project; Deposit type; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Description; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Elevation of event; Glomar Challenger; Latitude of event; Leg4; Longitude of event; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sample code/label; Sample ID; Sediment type; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.865347; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.865347

The southern Caribbean basins are thought to be part of a relatively old and geologically stable crustal plate. Although surrounded by belts of high earthquake activity, the central Caribbean is seismically quiet. The region also constitutes a quiet magnetic zone and appears to have resisted all of...