Geology and Offshore Mineral Resources of the Central Pacific Basin

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.

Contributions of the 1838–1842 U.S. Exploring Expedition.- The Foundations of Atolls: First Explorations.- Seamount Age Estimates from Paleomagnetism and their Implications for the History of Volcanism on the Pacific Plate.- Isotasy and Tectonic Origins of Pacific Seamounts.- Morphology and Geology of the Magellan Trough Area in the Central Pacific.- Southwest Pacific Seamounts Revealed by Satellite Altimetry.- Insular Geology of the Line Islands.- Coastal Geology of Upolu, Western Samoa.- Geology of the Samoan Islands.- Sedimentation and Hiatuses in the Central Pacific Basin: Their Relationship to Manganese Nodule Formation.- Managanese Nodule Deposits in the Central Pacific Basin: Distribution, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Forming Process.- Chemistry and Mineralogy of Ferromanganese Deposits from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.- Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Ferromanganese Nodules from the Kiribati Region of the Eastern Central Pacific Basin.- Central Pacific Basin Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crusts: Historical Perspective and Regional Variability.- Phosphatic Rocks and Manganese Crusts from Seamounts in the EEZ of Kiribati and Tuvalu, Central Pacific Ocean.