Locality
57°50´ east longitude, 20°55´ south latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Mauritius

Personal relationship of donor
vacation souvenir

Geological relevance of location
Corals have formed reefs in warm seas since the Devonian. Modern coral families can be traced only back into the Mesozoic, however.

Classification of the earth

Structure	beach sand with coral remains
Colour	white
Age	Holocene

Donor

Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany