Zhi-Wei Zhu

Evaluation of Ferromanganese Crusts on Western Pacific Seamounts Using a Distance–Relative Water Depth Variogram Model Based on Multiseamount Data

High survey costs restrict geological stations to an extremely sparse distribution, which has constrained the establishment of geostatistical models of ferromanganese crust thickness on individual seamounts. Moreover, because crust thickness is independent of direction yet controlled by water depth, the traditional “di...