Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the VERMILION SEA Expedition stations

On Vermilion Sea Expedition two research vessels among which the R/V Spencer F. Baird conducted a geological and geophysical exploration of the Gulf of California from February to May, 1959. Support was obtained from the Office of Naval Research and the Bureau of Ships of the U. S. Navy and from a grant of the American Petroleum Institute. Study of the canyons was one feature of the first part of the expedition. Submarine canyon studies were directed by Francis P. Shepard, Professor of Submarine Geology, aboard the research vessel Spencer F. Baird. The expedition found that the narrow channel between Angel de la Guarda Island, toward the head of the Gulf, and the peninsula is scoured almost free of sediments by strong currents. On the other side of Angel de la Guarda Island, between it and the mainland, one of the dredge hauls brought up a manganese nodule. It came from a depth of approximately 1500 feet. This is the shallowest water in which the nodules have been found. Studies have been under way some time on the feasibility of mining such nodules from the sea floor. They contain cobalt, nickel, copper and other valuable metals. (also in, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Vermilion Sea Expedition to the Gulf of California, http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb34484017)

(Fig 1, page 350) A manganese nodule in the top part of the CHUBASCO station 17 core taken in the Pacific Ocean

The vast extent of pelagic deposits, covering about 70 per cent of the ocean floor, thus about half of the earth, makes them of obvious importance to all Earth Science. All the pelagic (eupelagic) sediments, whether largely of plankton remains or fine inorganic particles, have certain distinctive characteristics to reflect their environment of accumulation. The great segregation of manganese in pelagic sediments presents many problems. It is hypothesized that in the formation of present day nodules a relatively slow accumulation in order to permit deposition of more of the manganese as large nodules, rather than as the disseminated micronodules that are in larger proportion in the Tertiary.

Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the H.M.S. Egeria, H.M.S. Penguin, H.M.S. Waterwitch, USS Enterprise and USS Tuscarora expeditions in the Southwest Pacific Ocean

The author is summarising the marine deposits of the south-west Pacific from a total of 773 samples taken during cruises of hms Challenger in 1874; USS Tuscarora and USS Enterprise in 1875 and 1876; HMS Egeria in 1888, 1889, and 1890; HMS Penguin in 1894, 1895, and 1896; and HMS Waterwitch in 1895.

Equatorial Pacific Ocean climate studies (EPOCS) : progress and plans.

"October 1985".

Copepods gathered by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross from 1887 to 1909, chiefly in the Pacific Ocean /

Mode of access: Internet.

Diagnoses of new shells from the Pacific Ocean.

Mode of access: Internet.

New tracks in North America : A journal of travel and adventure whilst engaged in the survey for a southern railroad to the Pacific Ocean during 1867-8 /

Disbound Original Held in Oak Street Library Facility.

Oceanographic observations, North Pacific Ocean Station Victor, 340°00ʹ N., 164°00ʹ E., December 1964-August 1966,

"CG 373-15."

Oceanographic observations : North Pacific Ocean Station November, 30° 00' N., 140° 00' W., July 1966-February 1967 /

"CG 373-18."

Oceanographic observations: North Pacific Ocean Station November, 30°00ʹ N., 140°00ʹ W., March 1967-March 1968

"CG 373-26."

Oceanographic observations, North Pacific Ocean Station Victor, October 1966 - October 1967 : Seasonal variation of oceanographic conditions from Ocean Station Victor to the coast of Japan along 34 ̊N latitude, January 1966 - October 1967 /

"CG 373-27."

Western Americana; an extraordinary collection dealing with the local history and march of events in the regions lying within the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and westward to the Pacific Ocean ... to be sold by auction ... December third, fourth, fifth ...

"To be sold by auction Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday evenings, December Third, Fourth, Fifth."

Aerology and naval warfare, the Battle of the Coral Sea.

"This is one of a series of pamphlets dealing with the weather aspects of Naval and Amphibious Warfare."

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern hemisphere, to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America; its distance from Asia; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe.

MTSD 58.