Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Bench Creek (Bench Canyon) - North Fork San Joaquin River Confluence Area, Ritter Range, Madera Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 211689
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-211689.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bench Creek (Bench Canyon) - North Fork San Joaquin River Confluence Area, Ritter Range, Madera Co., California, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Low Pass
Unnamed Mica-Andalusite Occurrence (1)

Latitude: 37°39'47"N
Longitude: 119°14'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.663055555556,-119.24027777778

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.

Andalusite	Clay	Corundum	Mica	None	Pyrophyllite

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 Fe H K O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Clay Corundum Mica None Pyrophyllite

4 IMA Minerals at location:

Andalusite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	162286	1310
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	162285	5433
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	162286	17380
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	162285,162286	771

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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