Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Allan Hills A77307 Meteorite (ALHA77307), Allan Hills, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica

mindat Locality ID: 247192
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-247192.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Allan Hills A77307 Meteorite (ALHA77307), Allan Hills, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 76°43'"S
Longitude: 159°40'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -76.716666666667,159.66666666667

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.

Corundum	Diamond	Feldspar	Haxonite	Iron	Magnetoplumbite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine
Pentlandite	Perovskite	Pyroxene	Rutile	Spinel

Anatase ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Augite ()*	Chromite ()*
Clinoenstatite ()*	Cohenite ()*	Corundum ()*	Diamond ()*	Diopside ()*
Forsterite ()*	Graphite ()*	Haxonite ()*	Hibonite ()*	Iron ()*
Magnetite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Perovskite ()*	Pigeonite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Rutile ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Spinel ()*	Taenite ()*	Tetrataenite ()*
Troilite ()*

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 Ce Cr Fe Mg Ni O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cr Fe Mg Ni O P S Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum Diamond Feldspar Haxonite Iron Magnetoplumbite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine
Pentlandite Perovskite Pyroxene Rutile Spinel

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2162
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1588
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1036
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2060
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	3902
Clinoenstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	94
Cohenite ()*	Perovskite	CFe₃	77
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1797
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	697
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4135
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1188
Graphite ()*	None	C	2812
Haxonite ()*	Haxonite	(Fe,Ni)₂₃C₆	26
Hibonite ()*	Magnetoplumbite	CaAl₁₂O₁₉	80
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1089
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1512
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	495
Pigeonite ()*	Pyroxene	(Mg,Fe,Ca)₂Si₂O₆	303
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	5614
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	374
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1934
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	703
Tetrataenite ()*	None	FeNi	116
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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