Locality
87°15´ east longitude, 12°16´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Bay of Bengal, northern Indic

Geological relevance of location
The volcanic Toba ash was distributed over the Indian Ocean during a violent volcanic eruption at Sumatra 71,000 years before present. Traces of this eruption can even be found in the Arctic ice cores.

Classification of the earth

Structure	fine sand
Colour	grey
Age	71,000 years
other	3214 m waterdepth

Donor

Dr. Hermann-Rudolf Kudraß,
 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Hannover,
 Germany