Geology and Offshore Mineral Resources of the Central Pacific Basin

1. Front Matter

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2. Contributions of the 1838–1842 U.S. Exploring Expedition

   • Barbara H. Keating

   Pages 1-9

3. The Foundations of Atolls: First Explorations

   • D. R. Stoddart

   Pages 11-19

4. Seamount Age Estimates from Paleomagnetism and their Implications for the History of Volcanism on the Pacific Plate

   • William W. Sager

   Pages 21-37

5. Isostasy and Tectonic Origins of Pacific Seamounts

   • Jeffrey T. Freymueller, James N. Kellogg

   Pages 39-53

6. Morphology and Geology of the Magellan trough Area in the Central Pacific

   • Masahide Furukawa, Kensaku Tamaki, Atsuyuki Mizuno, Masaaki Kimura

   Pages 55-67

7. Southwest Pacific Seamounts Revealed by Satellite Altimetry

   • Peter J. Hill, Nicolas Baudry

   Pages 69-76

8. Insular Geology of the Line Islands

   • Barbara Keating

   Pages 77-99

9. Coastal Geology of Upolu, Western Samoa

   • Bruce M. Richmond

   Pages 101-125

10. The Geology of the Samoan Islands

    • Barbara H. Keating

    Pages 127-178

11. Sedimentation and Hiatuses in the Central Pacific Basin: Their Relationship to Manganese Nodule Formation

    • Akira Nishimura

    Pages 179-203

12. Manganese Nodule Deposits in the Central Pacific Basin: Distribution, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Genesis

    • Akira Usui, Tomoyuki Moritani

    Pages 205-223

13. Chemistry and Mineralogy of Ferromanganese Deposits from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean

    • Eric H. De Carlo, Charles M. Fraley

    Pages 225-245

14. Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Ferromanganese Nodules from the Kiribati Region of the Eastern Central Pacific Basin

    • Barrie R. Bolton, Julius Bogi, David S. Cronan

    Pages 247-260

15. Central Pacific Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crusts: Historical Perspective and Regional Variability

    • James R. Hein, Marjorie S. Schulz, Lisa M. Gein

    Pages 261-283

16. Phosphatic Rocks and Manganese Crusts from Seamounts in the EEZ of Kiribati and Tuvalu, Central Pacific Ocean

    • V. Purnachandra Rao, W. C. Burnett

    Pages 285-296

The Earth Science Series of the Circum-Pacific Funding for ship time was made available through Council for Energy and Mineral Resources (CPCEMR) the U. S. Agency for International Development, the is designed to convey the results of geologic research in USGS, the U. S. Office of Naval Research (for RIG's and around the Pacific Basin. Topics of interest include 1982 work), the Australian Development Assistance framework geology, petroleum geology, hard minerals, Bureau, the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources geothermal energy, environmental geology, volcanology, (BMR) , the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, oceanography, tectonics, geophysics, geochemistry, and the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial applications of renewable energy. The CPCEMR sup­ Research (DSIR), the New Zealand Geological Survey, ports and publishes results of scientific research that will and the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute (NZOI). Coordination of the program was provided by the U. S. advance the knowledge of energy and mineral resource potential in the circum-Pacific region. The Earth Sci­ Department of State and the South Pacific Applied Geo­ ence Series is specifically designed to publish papers that science Commission (SOPAC, formerly the United include new data and new maps, report on CPCEMR­ Nations-sponsored Committee for the Coordination of sponsored symposia and workshops, and describe the Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in South Pacific results of onshore and marine geological and geophysical Offshore Areas CCOP/SOPAC) in Fiji. Over 150 scien­ explorations.

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• Oceanography
• Pacific Ocean
• geochemistry
• geophysics
• geoscience
• marine
• mineralogy
• prospecting

• Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

  Barbara H. Keating

• BHP-International Inc., Herndon, USA

  Barrie R. Bolton

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