The cores and dredges described are taken during the R/V New Horizon RISE III Expedition from April until May 1979 by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. A total of 36 cores and dredges were recovered and are available at Scripps Institute of Oceanography for sampling and study. The goal of this expedition was to accomplish the field work of a combined field and laboratory study aimed at increasing the understanding of the origins and development of young oceanic volcanoes.

From 1983 until 1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions. At the time it was the most extended data compilation on ferromanganese deposits world wide. Initially published in a proprietary format incompatible with present day standards it was jointly decided by AWI and NOAA to transcribe this legacy data into PANGAEA. This transfer is augmented by a careful checking of the original sources when available and the encoding of ancillary information (sample description, method of analysis...) not present in the NOAA-MMS database.

Supplement to: SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography (1979): RISE III Expedition, Apri-May 1979, List of Dredge hauls copied from shipboard logs. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, unpublished, 5 pp