part Part I. Placer Minerals -- chapter 1 Marine Placer Deposits and Sea-Level Changes / Hermann Rudolf Kudrass -- chapter 2 Light Heavy Minerals on the Indian Continental Shelf, Including Beaches / G. Victor Rajamanickam -- chapter 3 Tin Placer Deposits on Continental Shelves -- chapter 4 Marine Placer Gold, with Particular Reference to Nome, Alaska / Richard H. T. Garnett -- chapter 5 Marine Placer Diamonds, with Particular Reference to Southern Africa / Richard H. T. Garnett -- part Part II. Ferromanganese Oxide Minerals -- chapter 6 Resource Estimates of the Clarion-Clipperton Manganese Nodule Deposits / Charles L. Morgan -- chapter 7 Ferromanganese Nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin / Pratima Jauhari and J.N. Pattan -- chapter 8 Manganese Nodules of the Peru Basin / Ulrich van Stackelberg -- chapter 9 Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crusts in the Pacific / James R. Hein -- chapter 10 Innovations in Marine Ferromanganese Oxide Tailings Disposal / John C. Wiltshire -- part Part III. Hydrothermal Minerals -- chapter 11 Hydrothermal Activity on the Southern, Ultrafast-Spreading Segment of the East Pacific Rise. : / Vesna Marchig -- chapter 12 Mineral Deposits at 23°S, Central Indian Ridge: Mineralogical Features, Chemical Composition, and Isotopic Investigations / Peter Halbach -- chapter 13 Polymetallic Massive Sulfides and Gold Mineralization at Mid-Ocean Ridges and in Subduction-Related Environments / Peter M. Herzig -- chapter 14 Hydrothermal Mineralization in the Red Sea / J. C. Scholten.

"This handbook summarizes the main advances in our understanding of marine minerals and concentrates on the deposits of proven economic potential. In cases where our knowledge may be too limited to allow defining of their economic potential, those minerals are covered regionally or by deposit type. Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits is divided into three sections; Marine placers, manganese nodules and crusts, and deep-sea hydrothermal mineralization. All of these mineral deposits have great potential importance to economic geologists and marine mines.Edited by an acknowledged expert in the field, this handbook includes work by internationally renowned contributors. The new United nation's Law of the Sea, ratified by over 100 countries within the past two years, provides a framework and guidelines for deep-sea mineral exploration that increases international interest in this book. The Handbook serves as a platform from which to launch the more detailed evaluation studies that will need to take place in the 21st century before recovery can continue or commence. Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits is useful to mineralogists, economic geologists, marine geologists, marine miners, and conservationists.Features"--Provided by publisher.