Long-term photographic, current, and nephelometer observations of manganese nodule environments in the Pacific

Thorndike, 1975, A deep sea, photographic nephelometer, Ocean Eng., 3, 1, 10.1016/0029-8018(75)90002-5 Gardner, 1984, Nephelometer and current observations at the STIE site, Panama Basin, J. Mar. Res., 42, 207, 10.1357/002224084788506103 Biscaye, 1977, Suspended particulate loads and transports in the nepheloid layer of the abyssal Atlantic Ocean, Mar. Geol., 23, 155, 10.1016/0025-3227(77)90087-1 Gardner, 1984, Calibration and comparison of the LDGO nephelometer and the OSU transmissometer on the Nova Scotian Rise, Mar. Geol. Hendry, 1979, A pressure-induced direction error in nickel-coated Aanderaa current meters, Deep-Sea Res., 26, 327, 10.1016/0198-0149(79)90029-3 J.L. Bischoff and D.Z. Piper, eds., Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Pacific Manganese Nodule Province, 842 pp., Plenum, New York, N.Y. Johnson, 1972, Ocean floor erosion in the equatorial Pacific, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 83, 3121, 10.1130/0016-7606(1972)83[3121:OEITEP]2.0.CO;2 Johnson, 1970, Sediment redistribution by bottom currents in the central Pacific, Deep-Sea Res., 17, 157 Moore, 1970, Abyssal hills in the central equatorial Pacific: sedimentation and stratigraphy, Deep-Sea Res., 17, 573 Moore, 1966, Manganese nodules, topography and thickness of Quaternary sediments in the central Pacific, Nature, 212, 983, 10.1038/212983a0 Mayer, 1981, Erosional troughs in deep-sea carbonates and their relationship to basement structure, Mar. Geol., 39, 59, 10.1016/0025-3227(81)90028-1 Mayer, 1979, Deep-sea carbonates; acoustic, physical and stratigraphic properties, J. Sediment. Petrol., 49, 819 Brewer, 1976, The distribution of particulate matter in the Atlantic Ocean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 32, 393, 10.1016/0012-821X(76)90080-7 E.M. Thorndike, R.D. Gerard, L.G. Sullivan and A.Z. Paul, Long-term time-lapse photography of the deep ocean floor, in: The Ocean Floor, R.A. Scrutton and M. Talwani, eds., pp. 255–275, Wiley and Sons, New York, N.Y. Paul, 1978, Observations of the deep-sea floor from 202 days of time-lapse photography, Nature, 272, 812, 10.1038/272812a0 Heezen, 1971, 117 Paul, 1976, Deep-sea bottom photographs show that benthic organisms remove sediment cover from manganese nodules, Nature, 263, 50, 10.1038/263050a0 Piper, 1980, New constraints on the maintenance of Mn nodules at the sediment surface, Nature, 286, 880, 10.1038/286880a0 Deuser, 1980, Seasonal change in the flux of organic carbon to the deep Sargasso Sea, Nature, 283, 364, 10.1038/283364a0 Deuser, 1981, Seasonality in the supply of sediment to the deep Sargasso Sea and implications for the rapid transfer of matter to the deep ocean, Deep-Sea Res., 28A, 495, 10.1016/0198-0149(81)90140-0 Deuser, 1983, Biological control of the removal of abiogenic particles from the surface ocean, Science, 219, 388, 10.1126/science.219.4583.388 Honjo, 1982, Seasonality and interaction of biogenic and lithogenic particulate flus at the Panama Basin, Science, 218, 883, 10.1126/science.218.4575.883 Billett, 1983, Seasonal sedimentation of phytoplankton to the deep-sea benthos, Nature, 302, 520, 10.1038/302520a0 Menard, 1964 Lonsdale, 1974, Experimental erosion of North Pacific red clay, Mar. Geol., 17, M51, 10.1016/0025-3227(74)90044-9 Heath, 1979, Burial rates, growth rates and size distributions of deep-sea manganese nodules, Science, 205, 903, 10.1126/science.205.4409.903 Gardner, 1981, Benthic storms: temporal variability in a deep ocean nepheloid layer, Science, 213, 329, 10.1126/science.213.4505.329