Submersible observations of marine manganese deposits on some seamounts in the northwestern pacific: A review

Proceedings of the ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium

Volumn 1997-November, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Usui, A ^a   Nishimura, A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Manganese crust; Manganese nodule; Mass movement; NE Pacific; Seamount; Submersible

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; MANGANESE NODULES; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MINING ENGINEERING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; SUBMERSIBLES; SUBSTRATES; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CALCAREOUS SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; MASS MOVEMENT; SEAMOUNT; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY;

MANGANESE DEPOSITS;

EID: 84927731211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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