Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from DSDP Site 111, Leg 12 (Core 111-3, 111A-12)

• Main Authors: Laughton, Anthony S, Berggren, William A, Benson, Richard N, Davies, Thomas A, Franz, A, Musich, L F, Perch-Nielsen, Katharina, Ruffman, A, van Hinte, Jan E, Whitmarsh, Robert B
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1972
• Subjects: 12-111; 12-111A; Comment; Deep Sea Drilling Project; Deposit type; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Description; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Event label; File name; Glomar Challenger; Identification; Leg12; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; North Atlantic/KNOLL; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sample code/label; Sediment type; Substrate type; Uniform resource locator/link to image; Visual description; Newfoundland; Orphan Knoll; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.868631; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.868631

Orphan Knoll is a pronounced submarine feature at the foot of the continental rise and bounded on its northeast side by the 4000-meter deep abyssal plain of the Labrador Basin. It lies isolated on the ocean floor some 550 kilometers northeast of Newfoundland and 350 kilometers north of Flemish Cape....