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Hot brines and recent iron deposits in deeps of the Red Sea Hot brines and recent iron deposits in deeps of the Red Sea

Sedimentary iron and heavy-metal deposits of undetermined size have been found in the middle of the Red Sea some 2000 meters below the surface of the sea. This discovery has been made from the Research Vessel Atlantis II, which is still at sea engaged in a series of oceanographic investigations which ultimately will end in November 1965, after the ship has circumnavigated the globe. The...
Authors
A.R. Miller, C.D. Densmore, E.T. Degens, J.C. Hathaway, F.T. Manheim, P.F. McFarlin, R. Pocklington, A. Jokela
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