Locality
88°25´ west longitude, 7°5´ south latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Peru basin, east Pacific

Geological relevance of location
Manganese nodules and crusts grow extremely slow with only a few mm per million years at the seafloor. The crusts from the Peru Basin contain about 3% of valuable elements (Cu, Ni, Co).

Classification of the earth

Structure	manganese nodules and crusts
Colour	dark brown
Age	2 million years
other	4020 m water depth

Donor

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