Locality
153°9´ west longitude, 13°55´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
southern of Hawaiian islands, central Pacific

Geological relevance of location
Red clay is the typical residual sediment covering 28% of the deep sea floor. Most of the organic components are removed by dissolution in the agressive oxygen-rich deep water.

Classification of the earth

Structure	Clay
Colour	dark red
other	6100 m waterdepth

Donor

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