Index 



Ad Hoc Working Group on the EEZ, recommendations; 29 



airlift systems: 19, 176-177 



Albania: 87 



Alvin: 145, 148, 151-152, 161, 245 



AMAX Nickel Refining Co.: 89 



Ambrose Channel: 231, 290 



Amdril: 156-157 



American Samoa: 293, 298 



Analytical Services, Inc.: 159 



andesites: 57 



Anti-Turbidity Overflow System: 236 



Arctic Research and Policy Act: 26 



Arctic Research Commission: 26 



ASARCO: 200 



assistance to States: 34, 291 



legislative: 34, 291 



State-Federal Task Forces: 34, 291 

 Associated Minerals (U.S.A.): 105, 193 

 Association of American State Geologists: 267 

 at-sea mineral processing technology: 167, 185-192 

 Australia: 96, 99, 104, 174, 307, 317 



mining laws: 307-309 



Baffin Island: 161 

 barrier islands: 47 

 bathymetric data: 17, 22, 23, 132 



general: 17, 132 



security classification: 22, 23 

 Bathymetric Swath Survey System: 122, 128, 131, 256, 



268 

 bathymetric systems: 124-131 



airborne electromagnetic bathymetry: 130 



Bathymetric Swath Survey System: 122, 128, 131, 256, 

 268 



Canadian Hydrographic Service: 130 



charts: 124, 128 



deep-water systems: 126-128 



General Instrument Corp.: 126, 128 



Hydrochart: 128, 256 



Larson 500: 130 



laser systems: 128 



passive multispectral scanner: 130 



Sea Beam: 122, 123, 126-128, 131, 256, 276 



seafloor mapping: 126, 131-132 



shallow-water systems: 128-131 



Sonar Array Sounding System: 126, 128, 132 



synthetic aperture radar: 130 



WRELADS: 130 

 beach erosion: 224 

 Becker Hammer Drill: 156-158 

 Bedford Institution of Oceanography: 161 

 benthic communities: 20 

 benthic environmental effects: 215, 223, 226-227, 243, 



245 

 BIMA dredge: 169, 171, 200 

 Bone Valley Formation: 53, 56 

 borehole mining: 19 

 Botswana: 96 



Brazil: 39, 41, 91, 94, 171 

 Brown & Root: 182 



California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations: 262 

 Canada: 13, 39, 45, 49, 51, 65, 96, 98, 99, 102, 104, 

 218, 309, 317 



mining laws: 309 

 Center for Applied Isotope Studies: 144 

 Challenger, HMS: 158 

 Challenger, space shuttle: 149 

 charting: 254-256 



funding: 254 



GLORIA program: 254-255 

 Chile: 98 

 chromite sands, seabed mining scenario: 196-199 



at-sea processing: 197 



costs: 198 



location and description: 196, 197 



mining technology: 197 



operation: 198 



profitability: 199 

 chromium, commodities: 91-93 



demand and technological trends: 93 



domestic production: 92 



domestic resources and reserves: 91 



foreign sources: 91 



properties and uses: 90, 91 



stockpile: 92 

 Clarion Fracture Zone: 122 

 Clipperton Fracture Zone: 122 

 coastal erosion, effects of dredging: 21 

 coastal plain: 42, 51, 52 

 Coastal States Organization (CSO): 34 

 Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA): 34 

 coastline alteration: 218, 224 

 cobalt, commodities: 89, 90 



demand and technological trends: 90 



domestic production: 90 



foreign sources: 89, 90 



prices: 90 



properties and uses: 89 



stockpile: 89 



substitutes: 89 

 Cobalt Crust Draft Environmental Impact Statement: 



215, 240 

 cobalt crust mining: 182-183 

 cobalt crust mining, environmental effects: 240-244 



plume effects: 240-242 



temperature effects: 242 



threatened and endangered species: 243 

 cobalt crust sampling: 158-160 



and deepsea dredges: 159 



bulk sampling: 160 



measuring crust thickness: 159 



quantitative sampling: 159 



reconnaissance sampling: 159-160 

 Colombia: 96, 103, 171 

 commercial potential, marine minerals: 13, 17, 19, 81 



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