Regional variability in ferromanganese nodule composition: Northeastern tropical Pacific Ocean

Marine Geology

Volumn 147, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Knoop, Peter A ^a   Owen, Robert M ^a   Morgan, Charles L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Clarion; Clipperton fracture zone; Ferromanganese nodules; Geochemistry; Pacific Ocean; Statistics

Indexed keywords

FERROMANGANESE NODULE; GEOCHEMISTRY;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0032077010     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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