Marine minerals in exclusive economic zones

David S. Cronan

In the last ten years offshore mineral exploration programmes have increasingly concentrated on the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zones adjacent to coastal states. This book gives an integrated treatment of the various mineral types occuring in these zones, their genesis, distribution and economic importance. The book opens with a broad overview of the subject and discusses the legislative issues relevant to marine and mineral exploitation. Chapters then deal in turn with aggregates, placers, precious coral, phosphorites, manganese nodules, cobalt-rich manganese crusts and hydrothermal deposits. An international set of case studies illustrates each type of deposit, many studies based on the author's own experience in marine mineral evaluation programmes around the world during the past 25 years. This book should be of interest to economic and mining geologists, marine geologists and mineral economists.

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[目次]

  • Part 1 Introduction: processes of supply of elements to the sea floor
  • law of the sea
  • minerals found in EEZs
  • resource considerations. Part 2 Aggregates: sand and gravel
  • calcareous deposits
  • case histories
  • resource potential of marine aggregates. Part 3 Placers: nature of placer minerals
  • formation of placer mineral deposits
  • placer mineral occurrences
  • case histories
  • resource potential of EEZ placer mineral deposits. Part 4 Precious coral: precious corals in the tropical Pacific. Part 5 Phosphorites: nature and occurrences
  • oceanographic settings
  • origin of sea floor phosphorites
  • case histories
  • resource potential of EEZ phosphorites. Part 6 Managanese nodules: morphology and structure
  • growth rates
  • distribution
  • local variability in distribution
  • mineralogy
  • compositional variability
  • local compositional variability
  • the origin of managanese nodules
  • case histories
  • resource potential of EEZ nodules. Part 7 Cobalt-rich mangenese crusts: nature and occurrences
  • mineralogy and compositional variability
  • case histories
  • resource potential of EEZ cobalt-rich crusts. Part 8 Hydrothermal mineral deposits: mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal deposits
  • submarine hydrothermal mineral deposits at convergent plate margins
  • submarine hydrothermal mineral deposits on seamounts
  • case histories
  • resource potential of hydrothermal mineral deposits.

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書名 Marine minerals in exclusive economic zones
著作者等 Cronan David Spencer
Cronan D. S. (David Spencer)
シリーズ名 Topics in the earth sciences
出版元 Chapman & Hall
刊行年月 1992
版表示 annotated ed
ページ数 viii, 209 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 041229270X
NCID BA4708828X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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