Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from DSDP Leg 79 (Holes 544A and 546)

• Main Authors: Hinz, Karl, Winterer, Edward L
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1984
• Subjects: 79-544A; 79-546; Comment; Deep Sea Drilling Project; Deposit type; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Description; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Event label; Glomar Challenger; Identification; Leg79; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; North Atlantic/PLATEAU; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sample code/label; Sediment type; Substrate type; Visual description; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.875091; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875091

Seaward of the Mazagan Escarpment and slope is a band about 50 km wide where structures interpreted as diapirs stand like columns within a pile of sediments about 5 km thick . Dredges and cores from Vema cruise 30-13 and Valdivia cruise West Africa 1979 on the slopes of the most landward of these st...