The Blanco Trough, a deep depression located in the Blanco Fracture Zone near the intersection with the Juan de Fuca Ridge, contains unusual manganese-enriched layered sediments. Due to the Blanco Trough's bathymetric isolation and confinement, and its location in a tectonically active zone, three hypotheses concerning the origin and cause...
Sedimentation rate could become a new exploration tool for evaluating
the source rock potential of sedimentary basins in frontier regions.
Petroleum source rocks are defined on the basis of total organic carbon
by weight percent. An analysis of Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
cores indicates that there exists quantitative relationships...