Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Talisker Bay, Talisker, Carbost, Minginish, Isle Of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK

mindat Locality ID: 2959
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-2959.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Talisker Bay, Talisker, Carbost, Minginish, Isle Of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 57°16'57"N
Longitude: 6°27'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 57.2825,-6.4558333333333

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Amorphous	Analcime	Calcite	Gypsum	Gyrolite	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Pectolite
Stilbite	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Gyrolite ()*
Laumontite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*	Pectolite ()*
Scolecite ()*	Stilbite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al C Ca H Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca H Na O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Calcite Gypsum Gyrolite Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Pectolite
Stilbite Thomsonite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	138
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	142
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	425
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2994
Pectolite ()*	Pectolite	NaCa₂Si₃O₈(OH)	363
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	390
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	268
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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