Manganese nodule collection at Washington State University

This report describes the results of some two years of effort devoted to archiving the Marine Manganese Nodule Collection in the Geology Department at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. As proposed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1984, the Collection was organized, labelled, and indexed so that efficient use by outside investigators would be possible. Since the late 1990s, the collection has been transferred to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C., U.S.A where it is available for study.